40 Home Vegetable Gardening 



time. Extension rods for use in spraying trees and 

 vines may be obtained for either. ( See illustration in 

 chapter on spraying, facing p. 215.) For operations 

 on a very small scale a good hand-syringe may be 

 used, but as a general thing it will be best to invest a 

 few dollars more and get a small tank sprayer, as 

 this throws a continuous stream or spray and holds 

 a much larger amount of the spraying solution. 

 Whatever type is procured, get a brass machine — 

 it will out-wear three or four of those made of 

 cheaper metal, which succumbs very quickly to the 

 corroding action of the strong poisons and chemicals 

 used in them. 



Of implements for harvesting, beside the spade, 

 prong-hoe and spading-fork already mentioned, very 

 few are used in the small garden, as most of them 

 need not only long rows to be economically used, 

 but horse-power also. The onion harvester attach- 

 ment for the double wheel hoe, costing $1.00, may 

 be used with advantage in loosening onions, beets, 

 turnips, etc., from the soil or for cutting spinach. 

 Running the hand-plow close on either side of car- 

 rots, parsnips and other deep-growing vegetables 

 will aid materially in getting them out. For fruit 

 picking, with tall trees, the wire-fingered fruit-picker, 

 secured to the end of a long handle, will be of great 

 assistance, but with the modern method of using low- 

 headed trees it will not be needed. 



