. The garden book, a popular treatise on the growing of vegetables under both home and market conditions. Containing concise and dependable information concerning the planting, cultivation, spraying, harvesting and marketing the common garden vegetables in such manner as to secure the largest measure of satisfaction, pleasure and profit. Vegetable gardening. 14 harrowing. A great variety of harrows adapted to different types of soils and to different purposes are to be found upon the market. Two or three of these are worthy of especial mention. After plowing the disk or cutaway type of harrow
. The garden book, a popular treatise on the growing of vegetables under both home and market conditions. Containing concise and dependable information concerning the planting, cultivation, spraying, harvesting and marketing the common garden vegetables in such manner as to secure the largest measure of satisfaction, pleasure and profit. Vegetable gardening. 14 harrowing. A great variety of harrows adapted to different types of soils and to different purposes are to be found upon the market. Two or three of these are worthy of especial mention. After plowing the disk or cutaway type of harrow will be found the most efficient in almost every case. These tools cut, turn, pulverize, stir and thoroughly mix the organic materials through the soil body, fining and compacting to the full plow depth. Their chief dis- advantage from the gardener's stand- point is that they leave the soil sur- face somewhat ^_________ ridged and irregu- REVERSIBLE PLOW. WOODEN BEAM '^''> ^Ut thlS may be easily overcome by the use of tools especially adapted to smoothing and leveling. The advantage of the disk harrow, to be es- pecially emphasized, is the ease with which manures and green crops, decaying vegetable tops, etc., are chopped and worked into the soil in such condition that cultivating tools subsequently used work freely with- out catching and pulling these materials to the surface. The spring-tooth type of harrow is another tool deserving a place in every garden. It does not have the cutting effect of the disk harrow, yet it thor- oughly pulverizes and turns the soil to a consider- able depth and is especially adapted to rather stony or gravelly soils. The spiked-tooth harrow is perhaps more gen- erally used than any other tool outside of the plow, yet this almost universal use can hardly be justified by its efSciency so far as the thorough preparation: of the soil is Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally en
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