Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-22
PLANNING MADE EASY.
tools That Help the Market Garden
era Neat Little Seed Drill.
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tools That Help the Market Garden-
era Neat Little Seed Drill.
Every year l set from so, 600 to 100,
900 celery. onions and other small
plants, says w. H. Jenkins in The
Country Gentleman. To get my Plants
all out in good season we are often
obliged to work continuously for sew
eral days at time and we are some
times Obliged to do the transplanting
when the ground is very dry. Our way
of doing the work was, after the plant
bed had been prepared, to mark the
rows for the plants with the garden
marker, then apply the water to the
rows by hand with watering pot, and
then make the holes fer the plants with a
dibbler. This work became so tiresome
to me that began to study how tool
could be made that would do part of
the work The result was that l have
device that saves at least one-half the
work.
Instead If making the holes for the
plants by hand with dibbler, the idea
that worked ont was to place dibblers,
or pegs. on the rim of a wheel, so that
when the wheel turned it would drive
the pegs in the ground. | first made
wheel and placed ii in frame with
handles something like a wheelbarrow.
For celery plants the pegs for making
the holes were placed on the wheels six
inches apart. On the frame just behind
the wheel was placed a bucket of water
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tom that would carry small stream of
water to the ground and over the line
of holes that the wheel had made This
did very good work. and after using it
for some time the plan of using two
wheel cart WAS evolved.
The implement l am using now is
like common two wheel push cart
Between the wheels is water box, and
on the bottom on each side are pieces of
hose that carry the water down just be-
hind the wheels into the holes made by
the pegs on them. There are handles
both on the front and rear of the cart.
so two persons can easily handle it.
An improvement which l made on
the pegs for making holes consists of
blocks Of wood one inch thick. three
inches long and three inches high nailed
three inches apart around the rim of the
wheel. Hoop iron is nailed around the
wheel over these blocks. The earth will
not fall back in the holes as much when
the wheels are fixed in this way. 1t is
well TO have coil in the end of the hose
"a lead pipe can be used to break the
force CT the water so it will not wash
the soil in the holes and fill them up.
With this implement the ground is
marked for the plants. and the marker
can be attached for gauging the rows,
SO after one row is made with line all
the others will be straight, the holes
made for the plants and the water APP
piled as fast as one can walk. Two men
follow and set the plants rapidly when
the ground is thus prepared for them.
A little dry soil should be drawn around
the plant when it is set to prevent the
evaporation of the water. The soil
should be very finely pulverized and
rolled or levcled with plank drag and
when the soil is not so wet that it will
stick to it, to have the implement work
well.
Another labor saving tool that will
mention in closing is the little hand
seed drill now offered by some of the
seedsmen for about 81, think, for SOW
ing hotbeds or the seed led. for growing
plants for transplanting in the open
ground. These do the work much better
and faster than it can be done by hand.