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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 77.

TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS.
We handle a good assortment of the best gardening implements and tools, and as we are not bound to any firm or manufacturer to push their goods exclusively, our customers can depend on our opinion as here given, being unbiased and founded on our own experience, and that of the best gardeners near this city. A good wheel hoe is as much superior to the common hoe for cultivating a garden, as is the mowing machine to the sickle in the hay-field. All of the following tools have been thoroughly tested, and for their own particular class of work have given splendid satisfaction. The soil on which they are intended to be used, as well as the use to which you intend to put them, must be well considered.
All in all, the Planet Jr. Implements are the most popular with Iowa gardeners. If you want a tool both for drilling your seed and tending the crop, either the Planet Jr. or Comstock Combined Drill and Wheel Hoe will answer the purpose. The Planet Jr. consists of the largest number of combinations, and can be used for a greater variety of work. The Comstock has the advantage of extreme lightness (if that is an object with you) and with the addition of the Scuffle Hoe attachment does almost all varieties of work. As a cultivator for rather heavy ground, there is no tool which will equal the Ruhlman Wheel Hoe. It does as thorough and complete work as any tool on the list, and exterminates all weeds between the rows. No gardener or farmer should be without a Planet Jr. Combined Horse Hoe and Cultivator. It is conceded by all who have tried it to be the BEST HORSE CULTIVATOR IN EXISTENCE.
All of the tools named in this list are good in their respective classes, and we refer you to the description of them given herewith, and to the descriptive circulars of any of them, which will be mailed on application. All tools are packed ready for shipment, and will be delivered at express or freight offices at prices named. Notice our low prices.

"PLANET JR." AND "FIREFLY" FARM AND GARDEN IMPLEMENTS.
The "Planet Jr." goods combine lightness with strength, adjustability with firmness, simplicity with perfection of work, and thorough practical value with beauty of design. Owing to lack of space in this catalogue we give only a condensed description of these implements. A complete descriptive catalogue of these goods, illustrated with over forty engravings, showing the tools at work, and containing practical instruction in the cultivation of garden and field crops, invaluable to beginners and useful to every tiller of the soil, will be mailed free on application to us.

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The Planet Jr. Combined Drill, Wheel Hoe, Cultivator and Plow--This is the most popular tool we have ever sold. As a drill it is exactly similar and equal to No. 2, except in size. It holds one quart. As a Plow it opens furrows, covers them, hills, plows to and from, etc. As a Hoe it works safely to and from both sides of the row at once at the critical time when plants are small and weeds abundant, or between rows as plants grow larger, working all rows from eight to sixteen inches wide at one passage. As a Cultivator it is admirably adapted to deep mellowing of the soil. It sows all garden seed accurately at the desired thickness or depth, opening, dropping, covering, rolling down and marking the next row all at one passage, in the most reliable and perfect manner. Each machine is sent out with the tools shown in the cut. Be sure you get the latest style machine, having the rakes for cultivating. List price, $12 each. Our Price only $9.75 each, boxed. This is a very low price and all who ever intend to purchase one of these tools should buy it this year.

The Planet Jr. No. 2 Drill--Sows all garden seeds accurately, at any desired thickness or depth, opening, dropping, covering, rolling down and marking the next row all at one passage in the most perfect and reliable manner. It holds 2 1/2 quarts. It has no cams, levers, brushes, cogs, springs or shakers to get out of order; it is noiseless, automatic, self-cleaning and accurate; it is remarkable for simplicity, strength, and for ease and perfection of work in the field. No one having use for a seed drill can afford to buy any other; it is the best. List price $9.00. Our price only $8.00 each, boxed.

The "Planet Jr." Single Wheel Hoe, Cultivator and Plow Combined--Combines extreme lightness, strength, variety of tools, and great adjustability. It has one pair of exchangeable hoes, one pair of cultivating rakes, one broad cultivating tooth, one large garden plow, one detachable leaf guard, and there has been added this year a pair of four-inch sweeps. The frame allows every desirable adjustment, is quickly raised or lowered to regular depth, and the wheel can be attached centrally or to either side of the machine, giving the operator the important advantage of hoeing both sides of the row at one passage, when desired. List price $6.00. Our price only $5.00 each, boxed.

The "Fire Fly" Wheel Garden Plow--Makes the care of a vegetable garden a pleasure, and 10,000 families who could not find time to keep a garden, if attempting its cultivation with an ordinary hand hoe, can raise their own vegetables successfully with the "Fire Fly." It takes the place of the horse and plow, or cultivator, requiring no wide headlands to turn on, and is invaluable during all the garden season. The price is reduced to $2.50.

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