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GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



wood-work, leaving five or six inches of the sharpened 

 end on the one side, and one and a half to two inches of 

 the blunt end on the other, as shown in figure 117. After 



Fig. 117. GARDEN HARROW. 



the ground has been thoroughly pulverized by the teeth 

 of the harrow it is turned upside down and "backed," 



Fig. 118. DIGGING FORK. Fig. 119. AMES' FIRST QUALITY. 



as we term it, the short blunt teeth further breaking up 

 the soil, and smoothing it to a proper condition to receive 

 the seeds or plants. 



