. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 118. Hand sled-marker. ing out the garden is by the use of the garden line, which issecured to a reel (Fig. 96), but various other devices are oftenuseful. For very small beds, drills or furrows may be madeby a simple marking-stick (Fig. 115). A handy marker is shown 110 MANUAL OF GARDENING in Fig. 116. A marker can be rigged to a wheel-barrow, as inFig. 117. A rod is secured underneath the front truss, and from its end an adjust-able trailer, B, is
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 118. Hand sled-marker. ing out the garden is by the use of the garden line, which issecured to a reel (Fig. 96), but various other devices are oftenuseful. For very small beds, drills or furrows may be madeby a simple marking-stick (Fig. 115). A handy marker is shown 110 MANUAL OF GARDENING in Fig. 116. A marker can be rigged to a wheel-barrow, as inFig. 117. A rod is secured underneath the front truss, and from its end an adjust-able trailer, B, is wheel of the bar-row marks the row, andthe trailer indicates theplace of the next row,thereby keeping therows parallel. A handsled-marker is shownin Fig. 118, and a simi- 119. Trailing sled-marker. laJ deyice may be ge_ cured to the frame of a sulky cultivator (Fig.*119) or otherwheel tool. A good adjustable sled-marker is outlined in Enriching the land. Two problems are involved in the fertilizing of the land:the direct addition of plant-food, and the improvement of thephysical structure ofthe soil. The latteroffice is often the moreimportant. Lands that, on theone hand, are veryhard and solid, with atendency to bake, and,on the other, that areloose and leachy, arevery greatly benefited
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