The Carden Magazine, February, 1921 
315 
Portable air-pressure 
Aerospra tank useful 
in any part of the 
garden, in the green- 
house, or dwelling 
especially for liquids 
under pressure 
Where there are ex- 
tensive areas of 
uniform crops like 
potatoes and aspara- 
gus etc. a barrel 
mounted on wheels 
with pressure is a 
decided labor saver 
The sifter-can with 
perforated bottom is 
still a practical acces- 
sory for distributing 
dry poisons etc. and 
very serviceable in 
both flower and vege- 
table gardens 
In choosing a tool, attention should be paid to the joining 
of the handle and the metal part. Seventy-five per cent, of any 
subsequent trouble starts with a poor connection there. A 
“strap” union is desirable for any tool that is put to any real 
strain of leverage. 
Even in the elemental tools a great variety of shapes is availa- 
ble, especially among hoes, and a few different types will add to 
one’s comfort. A pointed one for close work, and a long han- 
dled cultivator combining the pointed hoe with a three- or 
five-pronged scratch-weeder will fill the initial needs; although a 
scuffle or Dutch hoe for surface tillage and weed cutting is also 
a genuine help. 
As has been mentioned above, the wheel-hoe is already well 
known, and its further development into a combination tool of 
rake, plow, and hoe in the modern wheel-hoe cultivator 
(of which the two best known for general purposes are the 
Planet Jr., and Iron Age) was a simple step. Where the garden 
exceeds one-eighth of an acre in size, and the work of mainten- 
ance devolves upon one pair of shoulders, a machine tool of 
this nature is almost an essential. 
In the evolution of the wheel-hoe attention has been paid to 
the common soil conditions confronting gardeners in most sec- 
tions. Thus, the original five-pronged scratch-weeder, designed 
upon the principle of the human hand, takes on new power 
through the curved cultivator tooth, which in the Liberty has 
reached its greatest perfection. The old-fashioned, two- 
pronged grubbing hoe is present in the powerful plow shears, 
reversible, to either break the ground or hill the rows, as may 
be required. Such attachments form part of the outfit of 
every complete modern wheel-hoe. 
The principle of the old Dutch scuffle-hoe reappears in im- 
proved form in the rocker-blade of the modern Gilson weeder 
which ultilizes both the forward stroke and the backward pull 
of the arm that guides it. 
Isn’t it worth while slinging the Autospray over your shoulder and 
applying insurance for the Peaches or what not in the home garden? 
Disc cultivators or cutting rollers, which finely pulverize 
soil inclined to be lumpy, are found in other types of combina- 
tion tools and are especially adapted for light soils in the Per- 
fection; whereas for heavy soils there are others such as the 
Barker cultivator, which combines the advantages of digging- 
teeth, cutting blade, and revolving knives. A recent applica- 
tion of ingenuity in the Triplex does away with all loose parts 
and extra tools for adjusting the different attachments, and the 
cutting blade, cultivator teeth, and plowshare are mounted on 
a single revolving pivoted axle. 
Tools for defense against outside attacks of bugs and fungus 
are in reality a very recent development and have attained al- 
