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appear, attack them with the hoe or rake. Do not wait 

 for them to get a foot high, or a twelfth part of it, but 

 break every inch of the surface crust of the ground just 

 so soon as a germ of weed growth shows itself. And it 

 will be better to do it even before any weeds show; for by 

 using a small, sharp steel rake, two or three days after 

 your crop is planted or sown, you will kill the weeds 

 just as they are germinating. The newly developed 

 germ of the strongest weed is at that time very tender. 

 In my market garden operations I had one man whose 

 almost exclusive duty it was to work in summer with the 

 steel rake ; and in a few days after a crop was planted 

 the surface was raked over, destroying the thousands of 

 weeds just ready to appear. Had we waited for the 

 weeds to be seen, so that they were too large to be de- 

 stroyed by the raking, four men could not have done with 

 the hoe the work accomplished by this man with the rake. 



CHAPTER XLVII. 

 GARDEN IMPLEMENTS. 



THE tool shed is an important and necessary appendage 

 to a well-kept garden. The following list includes such 

 implements as are generally needed in private gardens: 



THE WHEELBAHKOW (figure 140). The wheelbarrow 



Fig. 140. 



is an important vehicle in the garden, for the moving of 

 soils, carrying manures, and for conveying the products 



