I1—A Digging Tool 
All three of these are suitable for spading. If 
your soil is rather light and easily pulverized, 
the spading fork will serve. For heavy and 
gummy soils the English digging fork, with 
heavy square tines, or the garden spade, will be 
more suitable. The forks are easier to sink and 
break up the soil more readily than a spade. 
Z2—A Strong 
Personal preference dictates the style of rake to 
use as the bow pattern is equally as good as the 
level head. Teeth should be slightly curved to 
dig in, making it easy to pulverize the soil. 
Entire head should be a one-piece forging to 
stand hard usage. | 


Razor-Back 
Garden Spade 
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3—A Warren Hoe 
The ideal tool for planting. The sharp pointed 
end of the triangular blade is used to make the 
seed rows. After planting, turn the hoe over, 
so that the ‘ears’ straddle the row, and cover 
the seeds with soil. Also used to some extent 
for cultivating and weeding. 



Warren Hoe* 
4— Garden Hoes 
The basic garden tool is the hoe. It will be in 
use more than any other tool. The gardener 
needs at least two—a regular garden hoe for 
general work and a heavier 2-prong weeding hoe 
for breaking heavy or baked soil and for deep 
digging. Many people use the sugar beet hoe 
for general purposes because its “‘ears’’ have 
been sheared off to permit working under low- 
growing plants, such as beets and carrots, with- 

Garden Hoe 


2-Prong Forged  xxiioramonns 
Weeding Hoet ———— 

Beet Hoe 
out injury to the top growth. It is sharp on 
three sides and makes a very handy, useful tool. 
5— Cultivators 
These two tools are the most time-saving items 
in the entire garden tool setup for they relieve 
to a great extent the job of keeping down weeds 
during the growing season and maintain a dirt 
mulch over the garden surface to conserve mois- 
ture in the subsoil. It is not necessary to lift 
these tools up in the air and chop as with a hoe. 
The “Speedy Cultivator” is the most popular of 
all garden tools. The “Victory Cultivator’ is 
designed to fill the needs of gardeners whose 
plots are not large enough to warrant the pur- 
chase of a wheel cultivator, yet where a good 



Speedy 
Cultivator 
Victory 
Cultivator 
deal of ground must be covered. The tines of 
this tool are adjustable to the work at hand. 
The middle tine, or tines, can be removed in 
order to straddle the row. 
Suggested by THE UNION FORK & HOE CO., Columbus, Ohio 
Makers of UNION Farm and Garden Tools, SPEEDLINE Garden Tools, RAZOR-BACK Shovels 
*Indicates tools on which manufacture has been suspended for the duration to conserve steel. 
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