INSECTICIDES— TOOL-ROOM 



"dowels." They come in bundles of one 

 hundred, costing from sixty cents to a 

 dollar and twenty -five cents a bundle, ac- 

 cording to size, unpainted, and the men 

 can paint them on rainy days. The lawn 

 mowers and the roller (which should be 

 a heavy one) can also be kept in the 

 tool -room. Rakes, both iron and wooden, 

 hoes, spades and shovels, the latter both 

 long -handled and short - handled, are best 

 kept hung up along one side of the closet, 

 where the men can see at a glance what 

 they want. 



There should also be a pickaxe and a crow- 

 bar for taking out refractory stones, and, 

 most necessary of all things in a garden, 

 the wheelbarrow should be kept here, too. 

 A sickle and a scjrthe must not be forgotten. 



If the garden is large, a two-wheel tip- 

 cart will prove a great saver of labor in 

 carting manure and soil and in the removal 

 of debris. 



On a particular shelf in my tool-room I 

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