. Carrots, mangold wurtzels and sugar beets. Carrots; Sugar beet; Mangel-wurzel. CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 23 very best attainable. These implements are the Seed Sower, the Hand Weeder, the Slide Hoe, the common Wheel Hoe, and one for weeding both sides of a row at the same time. Of these there are a great many varieties, each of which are more or less popular among a class of growers. The engravings illustrate such as are in use in my own section of country, where root culture forms a very important part of the agri- culture of farmers. Both the slide and the wheel hoe, for rapid wor
. Carrots, mangold wurtzels and sugar beets. Carrots; Sugar beet; Mangel-wurzel. CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 23 very best attainable. These implements are the Seed Sower, the Hand Weeder, the Slide Hoe, the common Wheel Hoe, and one for weeding both sides of a row at the same time. Of these there are a great many varieties, each of which are more or less popular among a class of growers. The engravings illustrate such as are in use in my own section of country, where root culture forms a very important part of the agri- culture of farmers. Both the slide and the wheel hoe, for rapid work, far surpass the common hand hoe, while they cut up the weeds equally clear. The wheel hoe is used until the tops of the crops become so large as to be in the way, wheel lice when the slide hoe takes its place. Each inches narrower than the space between slide hoe is an amazing handy implement about a farm for many uses other than between the rows of root crops. A new class of inplements lave been introduced within a few years which, to a degree, supersede the use of the common wheel or slide hoe, there is yet a valuable sphere for each of them ; I refer to the weedcrs which cut each side of the GOODWIN'S WHEEL HOE. row at the same time I have tested everyvariety of these and have thus far found none dp such good, practical w^ork as the homeliest look- ing one of them all, viz.: the Goodwin wheel hoe. These. should be two the rows. A. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gregory, James John Howard, 1827-1910. [from old catalog]. Marblehead, Mass. , N. A. Lindsey & co
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