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THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. 



Messrs. W. Ball & Son's horse-hoe represents a familiar type, and it 

 is well adapted for working in roots which have just come up. The 

 hoes on the back bar are called " Indispensable " (see an illustration in 

 fig. 282), and are very useful -when the plant is in this early stage, but 

 as they do not face hard ground so well we prefer V-shaped hoes in 



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Fig. 283. Coultas's Horse-Hoe. 



subsequent workings. It is our practice to use at first only one large 

 hoe in a row ; this covers all the space between the rows of plants, and 

 as the stem is in the middle there is no risk of the young plants being 

 smothered. In our opinion a great mistake is made by using L-shaped 



Fig. 284. Howard's Expanding Single Row Horse-Hoe. 



hoes at any time, for they cannot be forced into -hard ground so readily, 

 and the mistake is greater when the flange is turned inw T ards so that the 

 stem runs next to the row, for then there is great risk of smothering 

 the young plant. The practice of working the flange inwards has arisen 

 because it is feared that unless the widest cut of the hoe is seen, as it is 



