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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



THE FRUIT GROWERS' WORKSHOP. 



VERY person who cultivates land, needs a tool room. So 

 many times a trip to the blacksmith's or the carpenter's 

 shop, may be saved, if one has a few tools and knows 

 anything about their use. The modern notion of giving 

 boys manual training at school is worthy of hearty support : 

 such training would be of incalculable value to a farmer or 

 5=1 a gardener. Speaking of tools most needed the American 

 Agriculturist says : — For woodwork will be needed a jack-plane, fore-plane and 

 smoothing-plane : two saws, a coarse cross-cut, seven teeth to the inch, will also 

 answer for a rip-saw; a fine saw, about nine teeth to the inch, will do the fine 

 work. A good steel square and a bevel-square are better than the common iron 

 ones. A one-fourth, three-eighths, one-half, five-eighths, three-fourths and one 

 inch bit, two gimlets and a screw-driver will be all one will need ; a one-half and 

 a one inch socket, firmer and chisels will be needed ; a compass, scratch awl. 

 an adze-eye hammer, monkey-wrench, crow-bar, sand paper, a good hand-axe or 

 hatchet for the chopping-block, and a good drawing-knife, an oil stone and oil 

 can, a saw file and a plow file, a small wood file, an assortment of screws, nails 

 and rivets, and one is prepared to do most of the every-day jobs and repairing 

 that are apt to arise. Those who cannot afford all these at first, should by al 

 means have a cheap bench and vise, a chopping-block, railroad iron, hatchet 

 saw, jack-plane, drawing knife, bits, chisels, and grindstone with treadle, this last 

 out of consideration for the small boy. 



A writer in the Ohio Farmer shows a good method of keeping in order al 

 small articles. He says : I became tired of the old way of having bolts, screws, 

 nails, rivets, wire, buckles, etc., in boxes standing here and there, oftentimes all 

 sizes in the same box, just because there was no other place for them. The 

 bother and loss of time were great, as I had to open sometimes nearly a dozen 

 boxes to find the thing I wanted. Thus necessity became the mother of inven- 

 tion, and the result was a "case" in which there is a place for everything, as 

 shown in the illustration. The drawers are made of small, light boxes (which 

 can be had at the grocery stores) sawed to 

 the right size, and then nailing a side, bot- 

 tom or end to them as required. The lower 

 ones are shallow, for nails, etc., two or three 

 inches deep ; those intended for more bulkv 

 articles, as bolts, etc., deeper. For knobs, 

 take common sewing thread spools and saw 

 them in two. The half of one spool with a 

 wood screw through the hole of it and into 

 the drawer makes the knob. For conveni- 

 ence, drawers for screws, rivets, small nails, 

 tacks, etc., are partitioned into two, three, or Fi " 503.— The Fuuit Grower: 



i u ^ i i Workshop. 



four parts, and can also be taken out and 



