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Show VALUABLE HINTS FOR THE GARDENER Machine Wheel Hoc Makes Work Real Pleasure Hoe Is Excellent Excel-lent Tool for Dry Weather. Thu muchlnu wheel hou Is a great thing in tho garden It makes garden work a real pleasure If you have onu of thu modern combined drill und wheel-hoe arrangements. They aru not costly, and not hard to operate. Any one that has a garden as big as a town lot can atford to have one, ns it will save Its cost thu llrst suason and will last fur "II years You can do as much work with thorn as ten men with hand hoes, and do it better. You can got tho machine of any sewd man and can generally get them dellveiud, freight paid, at the list prlcu. In thu garden you can still plant cucumbers lor plcklej, late cabbage turnips, celery ipluutsi, lettucu, rad-Uhuri, rad-Uhuri, beans and peas fur succession, nweot corn for late market, and In fact, you can take your ehuleu of u lot of sturf yet. White Held beans do best planted tholirsl half of June. They are n paying crop. too. Drill them In on any good ground, in the rato of from two to three pecks to tho acru. A small box of convenient height, mnketi a coiufortublu bent and may be readily moved from place to place. It saves tired knees. Tho hvo-cent cotton glovos used by men make a cheap and effective protection pro-tection Tor thu hands, nioro comlort ublo, and moru quickly adjusted than ihuao which lit. 'lie hoe U a better tool In dr wei;thtr than tho bote. Cabbage, onions, tomatoes and cucumbers can scarcely have tho soil too rich A rkl . light luam, with a ninny slope. U mi Ideal spot for melons, llians ulll grow on poorer soil and still tliilvo If tho plants are all growing nicely nice-ly do not wait fur them to hs.lt fur lack of food, but din a bole bitweeu the bills and put In tome poultry-house poultry-house fertilizer Lettuce will bear transplanting nicely, nice-ly, nnd (ii the plants come up they should' be thinned out to hv or six Inches apart, or they will become eak and spindling A border of letiure around the edge of the onion bed make a dainty garnish, gar-nish, nnd proves quite a help in keep lug the table supplied Trunspiunt at tight, or on a ruiuy day, and keep well watered for a few days. If the roots souli In water a few hours before replanting re-planting they ure much loss likely to Will. Young beeta may also lie thinned nnd transplanted In the tamu way, hut It Is better policy to how tho rows ivs long as aie wanted, and uso the sur-Uus sur-Uus for jjM una |