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wet. My plan is to commence planting when the 
rain begins, the fresh plants haying the full benefit 
of the shower. 
The Roller and the Harrow generally go in suc¬ 
cession, and a light one-horse roller will be found 
very convenient, but the large farm roller will do 
equally good work where one is at hand and there 
is room for it to be used. A small hand roller, about 
three feet in width, for rolling in small drilled seeds, 
such as beets, onions, turnips, etc., and by which the 
dirt can be settled over a row of peas or corn when 
only a few rows are planted at once, will many times 
repay the labor of making it. A piece of six- or 
eight-inch drain pipe, with the bell knocked off, an 
iron bar run through the centre for an axle, and the 
whole inside filled with mortar or concrete and 
allowed to get perfectly hard, will make as fine a 
hand roller as need be, or one can very easily be 
made from a smooth section of a tree trunk. This 
implement would probably be much more useful 
than the one-horse roller. It always pays to roll 
ground every time it is plowed, and too much stress 
cannot be laid on the value of firmly compacting 
the soil around freshly sown seed. 
The Cultivator is the most important and most 
frequently used tool in the garden, and should be of 
the best make obtainable. I consider the Iron Age 
or Planet, Jr., the best, they having a light iron 
frame which is very strong without being clumsy; 
the spreading bars close inward, so that they do not 
catch or interfere with the plants in narrow rows, 
and admit of working rows not more than two feet 
