Show an angle of about 46 degrees hold we tool firmly and uso use a little machine oil to help the file cut the steel of course edged tools like the sickle and pruning shears 1 have to bo be ground on a grindstone 0 or emery stone and then re sharpened from time to time with a whetstone the bevel of the edge must be as aa acute as aa possible on this class of tools the best tool for spading up soil to la not the spade but the spading fork it penetrates the soil boll much easier and pulverizes it more in turning over if the spade Is preferred it should have as flat fiat a blade as aa possible to prevent clogging the hoe to la the most useful tool to in the small email garden and it should have a large and heavy blade binds the additional width will do more work with the same number of strokes and the heavy head does more effective work because of its added momentum A rake la Is of rather small email importance after the seed to is once planted but it la Is an excellent and practically indispensable implement for pulverizing the seed bed uso use a cast iron rako rake of the narrow type the wide ones are too hard to handle for the larger garden a hand bond cultivator or wheel hoe to Is fine and a great time and muscle saver with it the entire garden can be hoed easily in the same mama length of time one takes to hoe a tenth of it by hand we prefer tho the sin single gle high wheeled type which runs between the rows as it will work close enough and busbea easier work it with the cultivator teeth early in the season to loosen the soil and force the roots to grow deeply changing to the weed cutting horizontal blades bladen later on it Is 1 a 8 real pleasure to cultivate the garden with one of these machines and they cost only a couple of dollars |