. The complete farmer and rural economist : containing a compendious epitome of the most important branches of agricultural and rural economy. Agriculture. 346 THE COMPLETE FARMER Lord Vernon's New T'lVage Hoe. The utility of this garden hoe will be duly appreciated upon trial. Few gardeners or nursery men employed in gardening will be without them when once they have been used. They are employed to great advantage in deep tillage ; in many cases they are superior to digging or forking the land. ^Bill-Hook. This article is much used in England in prun- ing and clearing brush, and is a good too
. The complete farmer and rural economist : containing a compendious epitome of the most important branches of agricultural and rural economy. Agriculture. 346 THE COMPLETE FARMER Lord Vernon's New T'lVage Hoe. The utility of this garden hoe will be duly appreciated upon trial. Few gardeners or nursery men employed in gardening will be without them when once they have been used. They are employed to great advantage in deep tillage ; in many cases they are superior to digging or forking the land. ^Bill-Hook. This article is much used in England in prun- ing and clearing brush, and is a good tool as a substitute for the pruning saw and chisel, and can be used with more ex- pedition. Glass Covers for Plants. These covers are used for cover- ing' plants—protecting them in their grow^th and preventing Garden and Field Rollers. E. Phinney, Esq., of Lexington, has made great and successful use of the roller for grass land, and has given a description and dimensions of what he con- siders the most convenient and best proportion, viz.: The rol- lers to be six feet in length and five feet in diameter, placed on an iron axle of the same length by one inch and a half in di- ameter ; the roller to be made of oak or any hard w^ood plank, each plank to be about four inches wide and two and a half thick ; the roller is made in tw^o parts, of three feet each ; each end of the axle is secured in a frame which is made of joist, of a suitable size to receive the end of the axle; to this frame is attached the shafts in which the horse is, or a tongue to which the oxen are attached, which completes the rollers". Mr. Phinney says this sized roller presents the following among other advantages, viz.: If the ground is very mellow the large sized roller "presses the smalt stones more directly into the ground and renders the surface more regular and even; the large roller also moves easier, and the weight fall- ing more directly upon the small stones, they are, as he has
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