390 Vegetable-Gardening Tools and Implements 



In general, it is well to avoid combination tools which, 

 by means of various attachments, are designed to perform 

 very unlike kinds of labor. They are likely to be less 

 efficient than tools made directly for the given labor, and 

 are also more liable to get out of repair. They are usually 

 cheaper than separate tools, however, and some of them 

 are very satisfactory. 



Market-gardening tools, implements, carriages and ma- 

 chines may be roughly classified as follows : 



I. For tillage. 



a. Tools to prepare the land for planting : 



Plows, 

 Harrows, 

 Cultivators, 

 Eollers, 



Hand-tools of various kinds, as spades, 

 wheel-hoes. 



b. Tools for subsequent use, — to maintain the con- 



dition of the land: 



Cultivators, 



Weeders, 



Hand-tools, as wheel-hoes, hoes, rakes, scari- 

 fiers, finger-weeders. 



II, To facilitate liand-work. 



In distributing manure and fertilizer. 



In marking the land. 



In sowing. 



In planting, 



In spraying. 



In harvesting. 



