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loading, and spreading manures, work which could not 

 be efficiently done without it. 



The Common or Draw Hoe. — There are several 

 patterns of draw hoes, but the one in general use is the 

 common square hoe, as represented in fig. 107. Its 

 uses in the garden are manifold, and it has frequently to 

 do duty for several other implements. Its principle uses 

 are to clean the surface of the ground from weeds, to 

 open trenches for seeds, and to cover them. 



The Prong Hoe, (Fig. 108). — This is one of the most 

 useful of all garden tools, and is far superior to the blade 

 hoe for stirring and pulverizing the soil. It cannot, it 

 is true, be used where weeds have been allowed to grow to 

 any considerable hight, but then we claim that in all well 

 regulated gardens, weeds should never be allowed to grow 

 so large that they cannot be destroyed by the prong hoe. 



The Dutch or Push Hoe, (Fig. 109), is sometimes 

 preferred to the preceding 

 for cutting the weeds be- 

 tween the rows of vege- 

 tables, a work which can be 

 done very quickly by its aid ; 



Fig. 109. 



Fig. 110. 



Fig. 111. Fig. 112. Fig. 113. 



it is not so generally useful as the draw hoe, but is better 

 for the special purposes of destroying weeds. 



The Keel and Line, (Fig. 110), are necessary in 



