392 Vegetable-Gardening Tools and Implements 



1 or more hand wheel-hoes, 

 1 or more wagons, 

 1 stone-boat, 

 1 wheelbarrow, 

 1 spraying outfit. 



Spades, shovels, hoes, rakes, forks, hand-weeders, trowels 

 and dibbers, hose, watering-cans, carpenters' tools. 



Implements of secondary importance, but which the well- 

 equipped market-garden must possess, are : 

 Gang-plow, if the area is large. 

 Sub-soil plow. 

 Swivel plow, 

 3 or more types of spading, cutaway, or disk harrows, 



if the land is heavy. 

 Acme and other harrows. 

 Wire-tooth weeder. 



Various patterns of cultivators for special work. 

 Plant-setter, 

 Fertilizer distributor. 

 Trucks and wagons. 



Aside from these various devices, there are special im- 

 plements for special crops, as eelery-hillers, asparagus- 

 bunchers, potato-diggers, potato-sorters, graders, and the 

 like. 



The implements and their work. 



The plow is the primary or fundamental general-purpose 

 farm implement. Its office is to prepare the land, not to 

 maintain it in condition. As a class, stiff and heavy soils 

 require heavy plows and deep plowing. Sandy soils may 



