January : Third Week 



UP-TO-DATE TOOLS— SUGGESTIONS ABOUT 

 THEIR SELECTION, USE, AND CARE 



The returns from garden operations are not determined 

 by the size of the garden, but rather by the amount of work 

 done in it. Even a very small garden, managed so as to 

 produce the maximum of which it is capable, will show 

 astonishing results. High-pressure gardening of this kind, 

 however, necessitates more time — and time is just the 

 thing on which the average home gardener is short. Usually 

 he is Hmited to a definite period each day, and as there is no 

 known method of stretching time, the only solution to the 

 problem is to use tools which will increase the amount of 

 work which can be done in a given time. The money you 

 spend for a good tool is really only the buying of extra time 

 for work in your garden. 



Even in a small garden a combination seed drill and 

 wheel hoe will pay for itself handsomely. A combined seed 

 drill and single- wheel hoe, with plow, hoes, cultivator teeth, 

 rakes, guards, and marker, can be bought for ten or eleven 

 dollars. That may seem at first glance Hke a lot to spend 

 on a single tool for a small garden; but such a machine will 

 last ten years or longer; the first seed drill I ever owned had 

 been in use ten years when I got it, and after using it three 

 years myself I sold it for three dollars, and the last I knew 

 it was still doing good work. Although this is "one imple- 

 ment" here are the things it will do: open a furrow; drop 

 seed of any kind, at any depth desired, in a continuous row 

 or in hills; cover the seed with. fresh soil; roll the soil, leaving 

 a neat, narrow, plainly marked row; and mark out the 

 next row — all in going once over the ground and as fast as 

 you would usually walk. Think of the amount of time 



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