THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
May, 1915 
228 
No. 4 — Planet Ji* Combined Hill and Drill 
Seeder, Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, and Plow 
Soon pays for itself in the family garden as well as in 
larger acreage. Sows all garden seeds (in drills or in 
hills), plows, opens furrows and covers them, hoes and 
cultivates quickly and easily all through the season. 
Planet Jr. quality tools are the great- 
est time-, labor-, and money-savers ever 
invented for the farm and garden. They 
pay for themselves in a single season in 
bigger, better crops. 
Built so well they last a lifetime. 
Designed by a practical farmer and man- 
ufacturer with over 40 years’ experience. 
Fully guaranteed. 
No. 1 1 — Planet Jr Double Wheel Hoe, 
Cultivator, Plow and Rake 
A single and double wheel-hoe in one. Straddles 
crops till 20 inches high, then works between. The 
plows open furrows and cover them. The cultivator 
teeth work deep or shallow. The hoes are wonderful 
weed-killers. The rakes do fine cultivation and gather 
up trash. Unbreakable steel frame. The greatest hand- 
cultivating tool in the world. 
No. 8 — Planet Jr Horae Hoe and 
Cultivator 
Stronger, better-made, and capable of a greater vari- 
ety of work than any other cultivator made. Non- 
clogging steel wheel. Depth regulator and extra-long 
frame make it run steady. Adjustable for both depth 
and width. 
New 72-page Catalog, free 
Contains 168 illustrations and describes over 55 
tools for every farm and garden need, including Seeders, 
Wheel Hoes, Horse Hoes, Harrows, Orchard- and 
Beet-Cultivators. Write postal for it now! 
S L Allen & Co 
Box 1108S Philadelphia Pa 
Special Garden Tools That 
Lighten Labor 
T HE gardener who makes a hobby of tools can 
save a lot of time and work for himself. Every 
hour’s time you can save should be worth at least 
twenty cents, and probably is worth a good deal 
more than that measured in the additional product 
which your extra time will enable you to get out of 
your garden. 
There are, of course, a few essential tools which 
have to be provided first, including a spade, a rake, 
a regular hoe, a trowel, and some kind of a sprayer, 
preferably one of the compressed air tank type. 
In additional to the spade get a spading fork with 
four or five broad strong, flat tines for the original 
stirring of the soil, and for loosening beets and 
carrots when digging them up, and for stirring the 
ground around flower beds, shrubs, etc. 
The hoe, of course, has to be used from one end 
of the gardening season to the other, and for all 
kinds of work from making a furrow for planting, 
hilling up potatoes, or corn, for working among 
small plants, and for work in the flower garden where 
hilling up is not wanted. No hoe capable of doing 
all these jobs can do them all well. The following 
will be found serviceable in addition to the ordinary 
type: The heart-shaped or Warren hoe for opening 
drills, for fertilizers, for large seeds such as peas and 
beans, making holes for tomato plants, covering in 
drills, etc. Then there is the light half-moon or 
onion hoe which, except where soil is to be hilled 
up around plants, means easier and quicker work 
than with the ordinary hoe. You will need a 
scuffle hoe for use between rows late in the season 
when crops are too big to be worked successfully 
with a wheel hoe. And on roads and paths a small 
combination rake and hoe which costs fifty cents 
with a 4-toothed rake, and sixty cents with a 6- 
toothed, is particularly useful where plants are too 
close together to make work with an ordinary hoe 
convenient, and for breaking up, with the rake side, 
hard crusts and lumpy soil; it will prove itself 
particularly useful about the flower garden. Before 
you decide that you can not afford any of these 
tools, stop to think that with reasonable care a hoe 
should last for at least ten years. The annual cost 
of a fifty-cent hoe is about eight cents! 
Another set of tools which will prove exception- 
ally useful are those designed for hand work. An 
ordinary trowel of course every gardener possesses. 
But if you are buying a new one, do not get an 
“ordinary” one. Get one of the best quality, with 
a solid shank instead of a makeshift ferrule, even 
though it costs two or three times as much. It will 
last as long as you are able to keep from losing 
it, whereas a cheap one will seldom go through the 
second season without breaking or bending, or 
having the handle come loose. But a regular 
trowel is not designed to take plants out of a flat, 
or plants from a continuous row. For either of these 
purposes and for many others a transplant-fork 
costing fifteen cents or a quarter (an annual charge 
of three or four cents) will be found a great time, 
plant, and patience saver. A dibber, for trans- 
planting, is considered by many gardeners a neces- 
sity. An all-iron one, with a revolver-shaped 
handle, is very easy to use and practically ever- 
lasting. I have one of this type which has been 
used to set out several thousand plants annually for 
more than fifteen years, and it is still as good as new. 
It cost thirty cents. For setting out bulbs and 
long-stemmed plants, such as tomatoes and many 
flower seedlings, the “slim Jim” trowel, costing 
fifteen cents or so, is a most efficient little tool. 
Among handweeders there are two types: those 
with teeth, and those with a flat cutting blade. 
They cost fifteen cents to a quarter each. One of 
each type will be found very useful. Among the 
bladed sorts I personally prefer the Lang, which 
has a strap to be slipped over one finger, by which 
it is held in place while the thumb and forefinger 
are in use pulling out individual weeds. Of the 
type with fingers or teeth one which has the ends 
slightly flattened or broadened is more efficient in 
breaking up a crust or hard surface than the one 
with round points. 
What is true of these small tools, in proportion 
to the time which they save, is even more true of 
any special attachments for the wheel hoe for which 
the gardener may have use. In this case there is an 
$11.75 Insures Your Garden 
Against Dry Weather 
It Buys a Complete 
Skinner System Rain Machine 
T 70 R $11.75. you can secure one of our Complete 
Portable Lines that will water 2,500 square feet. 
It will not pack the soil or use the plants roughly. 
It makes an ideal gentle spray, that waters every 
inch of your garden uniformly. 
Practically 85% of all flowers and vegetables is 
water. 
To be able to supply the right amount of water 
at the right time means everything in securing 
perfection and quick results. 
The Skinner System Rain Machine being porta- 
ble, you can easily shift it from’place to place. 
Can be connected direct to your hose. 
100 feet line covering 5,000 square feet, costs $23. 
$125 equips an acre Time and time again, buy- 
ers write us that in actual crop results it has paid 
for itself twice over, the first season. 
We pay freight on Portable Lines if cash is sent 
with order. Send for booklet. Order early and 
give your garden every advantage possible. 
Or IRRIGATION 
The Skinner Irrigation Co. 
219 Water St., Troy, Ohio 
YOUR GARDEN 
will never be a disappointment if you plant and 
work it with tools like these — the operator walks 
upright, the seeder sows accurately in drills or 
hills and with the cultivator points, side hoes 
and plows you can do more in one hour than in 
a whole day the old way. Result, a much bet- 
ter garden and more pleasure in it. 
Garden 
Tools 
give you a large line to choose from. See 
your local dealer and ask us for book- 
let ''Farm, Home and M arket Garden- 
ing with Modern Tools.” 
Bateman M’f’g Co. 
Box 3512 
Grenloch 
N. J. 
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