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rows to be seen, and others waiting until they are two or 

 three inches high. 



IMPLEMENTS. The harrow is the first implement 

 used ; a common /^-shaped harrow with the front tooth 

 removed, is drawn astride the rows, or some use a com- 

 mon two-horse harrow, run in the direction of the rows, 

 finding that no more 

 plants are uprooted than 

 are beneficial to the 

 crop ; in either case the 

 rows are harrowed once 

 up and once down. 

 Some western growers 

 use a harrow for the 

 purpose, provided with Fig. 2. HARROW-TOOTHED CULTI- 

 handles ; this we pre- 

 sume is much like the harrow-toothed cultivator (fig. 2), 

 an implement much used in the market gardens around 

 New York, and until within a few years peculiar to them. 



After this, whatever implement experience has shown to 

 be efficient in destroying weeds in other crops, may be 

 used. Sometimes the crop is worked, even from the 

 first, with a light plow, but a horse-hoe or cultivator of 

 some kind is preferable. The first time of cultivating, 

 these implements are so set as to throw the earth from 

 the row. At the second working these are set to throw 

 the earth to the rows. The number of times the crop 

 must be cultivated will depend upon the condition of the 

 land and upon the season, but it must be done often 

 enough to keep the weeds down until the crop can be 

 laid by. Hand-hoeing will usually be necessary to re- 

 move the weeds that the larger implements have missed, 

 and it is always required when the crop is in hills. This 

 to be less expensive should be done while the weeds are 

 yet small. 



Implements of particular manufacturers are advocated 



