Show CUTS OUT RASPBERRY CANES homemade device shown in illustration saves laborious work and many scratches after the fruiting season all the old raspberry canes should be cut and burned unless the grower Is provided with the proper tool to do the cutting the work is laborious and many scratches must be endured from the spines some growers use pruning shears but la in this method the hands and often the face come into contact 14 T homemade cang cane cutter with the spiny canes a most unpleasant experience the constant bending over also results in backache the tool here shown makes it possible to avoid all this trouble and pain it Is made as follows get the blacksmith to bond bend an old file to the shape shown the inner edge Is 19 ground to a cutting edge two or three holes are drilled through gli the shank in the end of a round stick tour four feet long cut an opening to receive the of the knife and bolt the knife firmly to the stick in using osing this tool the user can stand upright out of reach of the canes most of the canes will bo be tangled up with others alter after cutting the crooked hook shaped knife enables one to pull the canes out without touch touching them with tile hands II 11 L spooner Spoon crT in michigan farmer |