St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-06-16
GARDEN IMPLEMENTS.
The Best Should He Found In the Hands
oe 80uthera Truck Farmera

The Best Shoald He Found In the Hands
q Southern Truck Farmera
As . matter of course it depends
upon the number of acres cultivated,
whether gardener or trucker should
hare few and simple implements that
are run by hand-power, or the most
improved implements run by horse
power.
We have seen. oftentimes, = very ex-
cellent small garden of one-quarter or
one-half acre made mainly with the
aid of . spading-fork and a hoe; in
fact, we have seen backwoods darkey
make first-class small struck" patch
with nothing but his hoe. But where
market gardening or truck farming is
carried on . large scale there are GER
tain implements that he can not fail
to use If he would conduct his business
on the most economical schedule.
Besides the ordinary plows. he will
recognize the value of q harrow,
roller. . double cultivator and = ma
.nure distributor. No intelligent truck
er would long deny himself the use of
these labor-saving, snccess-insuring
Implements II man is absolutely
unable to purchase these necessary inn
plements, of course he must do the best
he can without them. But il he Is able
to buy them under any conditions, it
would be very poor economy to attempt
70 do without them.
A man who grows even one acre in
vegetables should have the necessary
plow and subsoil plow to break the
soil, = harrow to pulverize 1t, q roller
q hand-roller will do in this instance),
. seed.plsnter, . wheelbarrow with .
wide wheel, the necessary hoes. rakes,
marker for the seeds The other little
hand implements, such as the trowel,
the dibble and the fork for working the
small plants, we need not mention.
For q small garden. under two or
three acres, hand-rollcr that one man
can easily manage on fairly level land
il all-suhicient for forming the seed
beds o. drills A larger garden would
demand . roller run BY horsepower.
Such = roller, however, is not necessary
for forming the soil over the small
seeds of the garden. A hand-roller to
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necessary.
In gardening, whether carried ON by
the plain, practical man who carries it
on simply for the money, or the anna
teur who cares little for the money
value, SO il makes . pretty show, it il
well to have the rows straight and 1T
uniform distances A marker is very
easily made, either after . wheel pat
tern or that of . harrow. A marker
that marks four, or even three rows 1t
. time. is worth having. Most any
gardener of ordinary common sense
can make . marker, IL he recognises
the convenience Of having his rows at
q uniform distance. There is coneid-
erable advantage in having them 80
In the small garden-not too small
TO permit Of the rough preparation
being done with the plow. thus OBJ
Waiting the use of the spade Or turning
fork-the necessary implements are .
good hoe, \ steel rake, = hand-roller, .
common 'sheelbarrow and . hand gar
den plow
Il Il poor economy for gardener to
deny himself the best working tools
attainable. 1t il just as proper for the
gardener to have good tools ~ it Is for
tie carpenter. I: Is : pleasure 70 gar
.. n with good implements. though. -