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Show I MEW TURF EDGER IS USEFUL ' implement Invented by Pennsylvania Man Has Many Good Qualities That Recommend It. Several good features commend the new edging tool that was invented by a Pennsylvania man and appears in the illustration. In the first place, the handle is sot at one side of the cutting cut-ting blade, so that the whole force ot the foot pressure exerted shall bear f, f&McvV in "V -' ; i j New Turf Edger. directly upon the center of the tool. This Insures neater, quicker cutting "and permits the blade to be used as a knife and to be drawn along the turf, instead of chopping it. At one end of the blade, too, is an offset which regulates regu-lates the depth of the cut so that the grass may be trimmed to within exactly ex-actly the same distance of the walk as far as It goes. Where the foot pressure is applied to the tool a small malleable iron guide protects the blade so it shall not be bent. |