. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . A correspondent of the Cousttry Gentleman furnishes the accompa-nying drawings of grafting-kuives. He says: There is a great gain in using a tool best adaptedto its work, and I thinktliose unacquainted withfig. 168, will, after anexplanation of its advan-tages, desire to procureit. Fig. 167 is takenfrom April number ofthe American Agricul-^- ^*^^- turist. Fig. 168 is the knife used by most western grafters, I have handled both. The wedgepoint, a, should be made of steel, well tempered and not of iron, (


. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . A correspondent of the Cousttry Gentleman furnishes the accompa-nying drawings of grafting-kuives. He says: There is a great gain in using a tool best adaptedto its work, and I thinktliose unacquainted withfig. 168, will, after anexplanation of its advan-tages, desire to procureit. Fig. 167 is takenfrom April number ofthe American Agricul-^- ^*^^- turist. Fig. 168 is the knife used by most western grafters, I have handled both. The wedgepoint, a, should be made of steel, well tempered and not of iron, (as was the one I purchased, andwhich gave me muchtrouble by bending,) forthe point, in pressing openthe slit just before placingthe graft, receives a con-siderable you could always be in a. Fig. 167 would Fig. 168be as good


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