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with the crop. And so of all other crops you ultimately 

 expect to grow. A little experience will soon enable one 

 to grow them successfully. 



THE IMPLEMENTS NEEDED. 



The expense of starting the field-garden will consist prin- 

 cipally in labor, manure, and seeds. The implements re- 

 quired are found on every well-managed farm, with the 

 exception of a very few. 



We shall need a good plow, harrow, roller, cultivator, 

 marker, garden line, seed drill, rake, hoe, transplanting 

 dibble, watering can, potato hook, spade, and fork. These 

 are all necessary, but are already on hand. Amongst the 

 implements not so common, but which, in my own case, I 

 should hardly know how to dispense with, are the Acme 

 Harrow, a Smoothing Harrow, the Gang Plow, and a new 

 Revolving Harrow and Smoother, made by an extensive 

 onion grower in Connecticut. The latter is the best 

 new implement I have tried for many years. Like the 

 original Smoothing Harrow, it is a somewhat crude affair, 

 but it contains the elements of an exceedingly useful 

 and valuable machine. I have had three Smoothing 

 Harrows, and each one is better than its predecessor. 



