. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. THE FRUIT GROWERS' WORKSHOP. VERY person who cultivates land, needs a tool room. So many times a trip to the blacksmith's or the carpenter's shop, may be saved, if one has a few tools and knows anything about their use. The modern notion of giving boys manual training at school is worthy of hearty support : such training would be of incalculable value to a farmer or 5=1 a gardener. Speaking of tools most needed the American Agriculturist says :—For woodwork will be needed a jack-plane, fore-plane and smoothing-plan
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. THE FRUIT GROWERS' WORKSHOP. VERY person who cultivates land, needs a tool room. So many times a trip to the blacksmith's or the carpenter's shop, may be saved, if one has a few tools and knows anything about their use. The modern notion of giving boys manual training at school is worthy of hearty support : such training would be of incalculable value to a farmer or 5=1 a gardener. Speaking of tools most needed the American Agriculturist says :—For woodwork will be needed a jack-plane, fore-plane and smoothing-plane : two saws, a coarse cross-cut, seven teeth to the inch, will also answer for a rip-saw; a fine saw, about nine teeth to the inch, will do the fine work. A good steel square and a bevel-square are better than the common iron ones. A one-fourth, three-eighths, one-half, five-eighths, three-fourths and one inch bit, two gimlets and a screw-driver will be all one will need; a one-half and a one inch socket, firmer and chisels will be needed ; a compass, scratch awl. an adze-eye hammer, monkey-wrench, crow-bar, sand paper, a good hand-axe or hatchet for the chopping-block, and a good drawing-knife, an oil stone and oil can, a saw file and a plow file, a small wood file, an assortment of screws, nails and rivets, and one is prepared to do most of the every-day jobs and repairing that are apt to arise. Those who cannot afford all these at first, should by al means have a cheap bench and vise, a chopping-block, railroad iron, hatchet saw, jack-plane, drawing knife, bits, chisels, and grindstone with treadle, this last out of consideration for the small boy. A writer in the Ohio Farmer shows a good method of keeping in order al small articles. He says : I became tired of the old way of having bolts, screws, nails, rivets, wire, buckles, etc., in boxes standing here and there, oftentimes all sizes in the same box, just because there was no other place for them. The bother and loss o
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