JANUARY: SECOND WEEK 9 



you want to get out into the garden and use it as soon as 

 you get your hands on it. There is always more or less 

 heavy work to be done during the season which makes 

 such a hoe necessary. But for three jobs out of four in 

 the garden, except in a very heavy soil, the small, light 

 onion hoe is to be preferred. When you use one of these 

 for the first time it seems like playing at gardening instead 

 of working — but you will notice that the work gets done 

 with a great deal less elbow grease. 



Then there is the warren or heart-shaped hoe, which is 

 especially good for opening and covering furrows, digging 

 holes for plants, and so forth. The scufifle hoe or push hoe 

 is different from all the preceding. When a wheel hoe 

 is used there is little use for the scuffle until late in the sea- 

 son, when the crops are so large that the wheel hoe cannot 

 be used to advantage. While not absolutely essential, the 

 scuffle hoe is extremely useful in preserving a dust mulch 

 and in keeping small weeds from getting a too vigorous start 

 late in the season. The price is moderate, sixty cents to a 

 dollar. In buying pick out one that is narrow enough to 

 go through your narrowest rows. 



Even the smallest of gardens should have a wheel hoe in 

 its tool outfit. The simplest type with several different 

 attachments costs only a few dollars. As it is a machine 

 that you will probably use in the garden more than all your 

 other tools put together, be sure to get one capable of doing 

 all the work you may have to give it. The double-wheel 

 hoe has a distinct advantage over the single-wheel in that 

 the rows can be straddled, permitting very close work 

 while the plants are small and accordingly cutting down 

 the laborious task of hand weeding. If your garden is at 

 all large the amount of time you will save in weeding it the 

 first time with a double-wheel hoe instead of with a single- 

 wheel hoe will make you satisfied with the slight additional 

 investment. In addition to the attachments that come with 

 the double-wheel outfit, you should get either the disk at- 

 tachment or a pair of hoes with extra high sides, which will 

 keep any earth from being thrown over the smallest plants. 



