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Title: Retail seed catalogue
Identifier: CAT31282446 (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Sioux City Nursery and Seed Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Iowa Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nursery stock; Vegetables; Flowers; Grasses; Gardening
Publisher: Sioux City, Iowa : Sioux City Nursery & Seed Company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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70 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. THE "FIRE-FLY" WHEEL GARDEN PLOW Makes the care of a vegetable garden a pleasure. It takes the place of the plow or cultivator, requiring no wide headlands to turn on, and is invaluable during all the gardening season. Just the thing in a small garden. You can have one like this picture for $2.00 CASH.
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The Planet Jr. Twelve-Tooth Harrow, Cultivator and Pulverizer. For fine cultivation, either deep or shallow, this has no equal. The recurved throat and high frame prevents clogging, and the reverse position is given to the teeth in a short time by changing a single bolt in each. It is provided with a new lever wheel, used to regulate the depth with exactness; also with a pulverizer, which leaves the ground in the finest possible condition. The pulverizer is controlled by a lever that, can be operated in an instant by the foot while in motion. The pulverizer may be reduced in width by taking off the outside teeth, and the tool may be used to straddle arow, cul- tivating both sides at once. As a harrow, the work done is most perfect, and with the teeth turned backward it is admirable for trashy ground and leveling, and for crops just breaking through the surface. Weight, packed, 60 lbs. Price complete, $7.50; without pulverizer, $6 25. Planet Jr. No. 6 Combined Horse Hoe and Cultivator. This well known and popular tool, though ac- knowledged for years past to be the best in the maket, has striking improvements now. Chief among these are the lever wheel, a necessity for particular work: the patent lever expander, changing the width instantly, and handle ad- justment for height, and also sidewise for use in grapes, pole beans, blackberries, nursery stock, etc., and when covering. It also has a patent parallel frame, interchangeable and adjustable hollow steel standards, reversible blade, sleeved bolt holes, et c; As a horse hoe, with the side t eeth reversed, it cuts close to the row without injury to the roots; leaving but liitle and in many- cases nothing for the haDd hoe. As a cultivator, the reversible teeth cut off and turn over the weeds in the most perfect style. As a hiller, the side teeth work in combination with the rear shovel to perfection. Price, $7.25. Price, $7.75. THE "PLANET JR., NO. 8 HORSE HOE. Probably no other cultivating machine is so widely known as the "Planet Jr." Combined Horse Hoe and Cultivator* for it is in use throughout the civilized world It is so strongly built as to withstand incredible strain, yet it is light and easy to handle. For 1896 we offer important improvements in our No. 8 '"Planet Jr." Horse Hoe and Cultivator, as described below: The Frame is longer than usual and about one and a half inches higher, making a tool that will not clog easily. The Standards are formed up hollow with round throats of stiir steel; they polish quickly and free themselves readily from obstructions, and they clasp the frame and strengthen it. The Depth is under perfect control by means of a new lever wheel, and the new patented depth regulator, which are moved instantly in unison by a single lever, making . ',^Jfl" ^, ^^g'^Hms^^Si, exact work, steadying the machine and re- JS^fcffz^ T^^v^s^WfcM^VVlyl \ ~ ^tE^T*^ relieving the operator. The Expander. This is an entirely new pattern, superior to all other forms; exceed- ingly strong, simple, accurate and positive in ail positions. Handle and Braces. These are absolutely new and the most effective and stiffest combination known, at once making the tool rigid, yet allowing every adjustment of handles in height and sidewise. Every part is perfected to make the tool acceptable to the intelligent farmer, who knows the best is always the cheapest. Price, $7.75.

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