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manner of using the marker will readily suggest itself. 

 A line being stretched tightly to the required length, the 

 outer tooth is set against it and. steadily drawn to the end, 

 returning, the outer row forms the guide for the marker, 

 and so on until finished. The marker is usually a home- 

 made implement, of wood, but it answers rather better to 

 have the teeth made of iron, scooped, something like a 

 common garden trowel. 



The Market Wagon (figure 18) is made after various 

 patterns in different sections of the country ; that shown 



Fig. 18. MARKET WAG 



in the cut is the kind used by us, and is usually drawn 

 by one horse, it is strongly made, weighing about 1400 

 pounds, and is capable of carrying from 2000 to 3000 

 pounds. 



The Seed Drill, fig. 19, next page, is used in sowing large 

 field crops of Onions, Carrots, Turnips, etc., and can be 

 adjusted to suit all sizes of seeds. It is, however, more 

 an implement of the farm than the garden, and rarely 

 used in small market gardens, most cultivators deem, 

 ing it safer to sow by hand. Sowing by hand requires 

 more than twice the quantity of seed than when sown by 

 the drill, but the crops of our market gardens are too im- 

 portant to run any risk from such small considerations of 



