Ingenious Machines to Work for 

 the Gardener and the Farmer 



A Whole Garden Kit in 

 One Tool 



SEVERAL devices 

 have recently been 

 invented to make the 

 task of creating your 

 own garden agreeable. 



A handy new imple- 

 ment capable of many 

 uses has been invented 

 by Joseph De Falco, of 

 Vineland, New Jersey. 

 It may be quickly con- 

 verted from a hoe into a 

 rake, from a rake into a 

 weeder and from a weed- 

 er into a shovel. It has 



A post-hole digger of this type will make a hole in a 

 minute and a half. It does the work of fifteen men 



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This garden tool is a hoe, a rake, a weeder 

 or a shovel 



a handle to which any of these tools may 

 be adjustably clamped ; besides they can 

 be tilted at whatever angle is handiest. 

 A piv'otally-mounted, ridged headpiece 

 and a fastening-guide arranged to engage 

 the teeth, make such adjustments a mat- 

 ter of choice v.ith the gardener. 



Digging Fence -Post Holes by Means of 

 a New Machine 



FOR the gardener and the farmer a 

 hole-digging machine has been in- 

 \cntecl by August Enstrom of Rock 

 Island, III. Up in New England, where 

 the fertile hills are rock\-, there are good 

 farms with perfecth' built, picturesque 

 stone fences extending in all directions. 

 Sometimes they have cost almost as 

 nnich as the farm is worth. A hole- 

 digging machine would ha\'e made it 



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