A WORD FOR GOOD TOOLS 
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one of the chief exports from our country, and that American 
implements are in demand the world over. One of the most 
interesting exhibits at Paris, in 1 900, was a collection of agri- 
cultural tools, — stepping stones of progress on parade they 
might be called, — arranged in chronological order. The 
curiously archaic forms of the primitive tools led off, then 
appeared the gradual improvements made at different epochs. 
HANDS MAKE THE BEST ALL-ROUND TOOLS 
until, bringing up the rear, were displayed all the most intri- 
cate modern machines. A rapid glance revealed the complete 
history of agriculture and explained its enormous leap ahead, 
at the present day, by the help of machinery. 
Most of the new and clever devices for economizing labor 
are to be seen in actual service at any flourishing market 
garden. It is a part of the business of the school gardener 
to understand agriculture in all its giant proportions, and to 
appreciate appliances and what they stand for. It is also 
