PLANTING THE SEED, ETC. 



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same time. In some of these, the hoes are adjustable by 

 screws, so tha't they can be arranged to go as near the 

 row as may be desired. The Southport Hoe, and one of 

 the Planet series, are illustrations of these. In my judg- 

 ment, decidedly the best of this class (and some of my 

 fellow- farmers who have used it think likewise), is the 

 "Finger Weeder" (see engraving), to which I have con- 

 sented to have my name attached. 

 This implement is the only one where 

 the hoes are continually 

 under the control of the 

 operator, which admits 

 of their being instanta- 

 neously adjusted to 

 any irregularity, to 

 knock stones or clods of 

 earth aside, or to pick out 

 any single weed. Being 

 able to be run nearer the 

 crop than can the hoes of 

 any other implement, they 

 leave fewer weeds to be pulled by hand, and thus save ex- 

 pense in what is the most costly department of onion- 

 raising. 



After the tops get so far gr»wn as to bend over into the 

 rows, they are apt to be caught between the wheel and axle* 

 of the wheel-hoe ; hence from thence forward, either the 

 single wheel or the scuffle hoe should be used. 

 • Farmers sometimes make their own scufifle-hoes out of a 

 piece of an old saw, the teeth answering a good purpose in 

 cutting off the weeds. 



In Eastern Massachusetts fourteen inches is the usual 



