SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3348, 15 May 1918, Page 55

SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS.

INVENTIONS AND APPLIANCES OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURE. C. J. Lynde, Macdonald College, P. 0., Quebec. PUSH HOE. The advantages claimed for this hoe is that it is light and strong, that it moves through the soil with little friction, and

' Push Hoe that it is a very effective weeder Edwin L. Glover, Jackson, Mississippi. (U.S. Patent 1,231,012). WEEDER, The frame of this weeder is a rectangular loop of iron with the diamondshaped cutting blades on one side and the handle on the other. The blades cut

Weeder both going and coming, and the _ frame protects neighbouring plants from injury. —Severn B. Svendsen, Espanola, Florida. (U.S. Patent, 1,239,316). FORK ATTACHMENT. The slanting blade here enables the operator to cut wires and weeds with the fork, and at the same time to bunch

Hn Fork Blade Y\\ them and lift them out of Che way. It is readily attached and detached.— Albert K. Henrikson, Keyes, California. (U.S. Patent 1,236,932). THE HOME GARDEN. This is the time to plan your garden. Make a plan on good, tough paper, and mark on it what you are going to plant, and when you are going to plant it. Plan

■a BSO Rows to make use of companion crops—that is, early vegetables planted between those which mature later; also of succession crops—that is, late beets, beans, turnips, &c, to be planted after you have har-

vested your early peas, radishes, lettuce, etc. Have the rows run north and south so that each plant will get its share of sun. Those who live in the country should make the kitchen garden in a field with a farm cultivated crop with the rows in line with the rows of this crop. The menfolk can then cultivate it with the horse when they cultivate the farm crop. Our illustrations are taken, from Circular 198, University of Illinois. Figure 850 illustrates rows of companion plants; Figure 851, a homemade row marker; Figure 852, a two-wheeled hoe. We mentioned last week the following bulletins which will help you and which can be had for the asking:—"Home Vegetable Gardening," Circular 198, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. "The Small Vegetable Garden," Farmers' Bulletin 818,\ U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.G. "The Vegetable Garden," by Saxby Blair, Dept of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.