. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. 46 SCHOOL AND HOME GAKDENING nomic point of view they are not necessary in small gardens; but if the school can secure them, it is well to teach their uses to the pupils. They will be found very useful in the larger home gardens and in market gardens. A one-horse cultivator (Fig. 25) miay also be owned by the school if considerable cultivation is to be done by horse power. Eenting a cultivator for the purpose is usually pos- sible, b
. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. 46 SCHOOL AND HOME GAKDENING nomic point of view they are not necessary in small gardens; but if the school can secure them, it is well to teach their uses to the pupils. They will be found very useful in the larger home gardens and in market gardens. A one-horse cultivator (Fig. 25) miay also be owned by the school if considerable cultivation is to be done by horse power. Eenting a cultivator for the purpose is usually pos- sible, but often the shovels are too large and not suitable for the best garden work. Select a cultivator with many small shovels or harrow teeth. The plow to be used in preparing soil for school garden work may be either borrowed, rented or purchased. It should. Fig. 25.—This form of one-horse cultivator is well suited for garden work. It can bo adjusted in width to suit all rows. have a mould-board of medium length and curvature, neither too long nor too short and steep. The harrow should be chosen to suit the type of soil. Light soils may be made fine with a common spike-tooth harrow or " drag "; but an-Acme pulverizer is a good general purpose harrow and is one of the best for soils that are heavy enough to form hard clods. Always use the harrow on the garden the same day it is plowed. Pruning shears and pruning saws are not expensive and may be owned by such schools as have an opportunity to teach their uses. Another plan is for each pupil who has home uses for them to buy the shears (Fig. 22) and saws and let them be usedboth at home and at 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 Davis, Kary Cadmus, 1867-. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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