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to get broken, and easier to use. There is quite a 

 knack in manipulating even a garden rake, which 

 will come only with practice. Do not rake as though 

 you were gathering up leaves or grass. The secret 

 in using the garden rake is not to gather things up. 

 Small stones, lumps of earth and such things, you 

 of course wish to remove. Keep these raked off 

 ahead of where you are leveling the soil, which is 

 accomplished v/ith a backward-and-forward move- 

 ment of the rake. 



The tool-house of every garden of any size should 

 contain a seed-drill. Labor which is otherwise te- 

 dious and difficult is by it rendered mere play — as 

 well as being better done. The operations of mark- 

 ing the row, opening the furrow, dropping the seed 

 at the proper depth and distance, covering imme- 

 diately with fresh earth, and firming the soil, are all 

 done at one fell swoop and as fast as you can walk. 

 It will even drop seeds in hills. But that is not all : 

 it may be had as part of a combination machine, 

 w^hich, after your seeds are planted — with each row 

 neatly rolled on top, and plainly visible — may be at 

 once transformed into a wheel hoe that will save 

 you as much time in caring for your plants as the 

 seed-drill did in planting your seed. Hoeing 

 drudger}^ becomes a thing of the past. The illustra- 

 tion herewith shows such a machine, and some of 

 the varied attachments which may be had for it. 



