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September 15, 1900
St. Tammany Farmer
Covington, Saint Tammany County, Louisiana
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W. H. Pillow shares instructions for a homemade garden marker tool, made from 1.5 by 8-inch wood four feet long with a pole handle and sharpened lath pieces for creating one-foot or 16-inch spaced drills, suitable for sowing seeds or setting plants.
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Handy Garden Marker.
Home-Made Implement Which Is Just as Good for Ordinary Use as More Costly Devices.
I use a homemade marker when I want to sow only a few seeds or to set out plants. It is made from 1½ by 8-inch stuff, four feet long. In this pole from the woods is firmly fixed for a handle by boring a 1-inch hole at the center through the scantling. The end of the pole is sharpened enough to go through the hole and then wedged behind to keep it from drawing out. It is also braced with a piece of lath from each end of the scantling. Pieces of lath 1 foot long are sharpened and nailed firmly to the back of the scantling, so that one side makes drills one-foot apart and the other side 16 inches.--W. H. Pillow, in Orange Judd Farmer.
Home-Made Implement Which Is Just as Good for Ordinary Use as More Costly Devices.
I use a homemade marker when I want to sow only a few seeds or to set out plants. It is made from 1½ by 8-inch stuff, four feet long. In this pole from the woods is firmly fixed for a handle by boring a 1-inch hole at the center through the scantling. The end of the pole is sharpened enough to go through the hole and then wedged behind to keep it from drawing out. It is also braced with a piece of lath from each end of the scantling. Pieces of lath 1 foot long are sharpened and nailed firmly to the back of the scantling, so that one side makes drills one-foot apart and the other side 16 inches.--W. H. Pillow, in Orange Judd Farmer.
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Agriculture
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Garden Marker
Homemade Tool
Planting Drills
Agricultural Implement
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W. H. Pillow
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W. H. Pillow
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Description of a homemade garden marker made from 1½ by 8-inch stuff four feet long, with a pole handle fixed by boring a 1-inch hole and wedging, braced with lath, and sharpened 1-foot lath pieces nailed to create one-foot or 16-inch spaced drills for sowing seeds or setting plants.