Boy hoeing a garden.

Boy with hoe

Boy hoeing a garden.

This is a combination draw hoe. It is also called a mattock or fork. It also known as a pitchfork.

Draw Hoe and Fork Combined

This is a combination draw hoe. It is also called a mattock or fork. It also known as a pitchfork.

Dutch hoes are useful for destroying weeds or for loosening the surface.

Dutch Hoe

Dutch hoes are useful for destroying weeds or for loosening the surface.

A Blackland (or meadow hoe), reading "True-Temper Triumph", displayed horizontally.

Hoe

A Blackland (or meadow hoe), reading "True-Temper Triumph", displayed horizontally.

An instrument for cutting up weeds and lossening the earth.

Hoe

An instrument for cutting up weeds and lossening the earth.

A typical single-wheel hoe and cultivator, 1919.

Hoe and Cultivator

A typical single-wheel hoe and cultivator, 1919.

A typical double-wheel hoe and cultivator for straddling the rows, 1919.

Hoe and Cultivator

A typical double-wheel hoe and cultivator for straddling the rows, 1919.

A hoe inside of a circle

Hoe logo

A hoe inside of a circle

A tool used to break up the surface of the ground.

Agricultural Hoe

A tool used to break up the surface of the ground.

Martin's one-row horse hoe used in agriculture.

Horse Hoe

Martin's one-row horse hoe used in agriculture.

Canadian peasant girl.

peasant girl

Canadian peasant girl.

"The pickfork or Canterbury hoe is a very useful tool for breaking up the surface soil, the three-pronged end being used for the looser parts, and the mattock end for breaking clods, or when the surface has become much consolidated." — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893

Pickfork

"The pickfork or Canterbury hoe is a very useful tool for breaking up the surface soil, the three-pronged…

Seal, with a shovel and hoe on it.

True-temper seal

Seal, with a shovel and hoe on it.

The spanish or vernon hoe is a form with only one point.

Spanish or Vernon Hoe

The spanish or vernon hoe is a form with only one point.

In the swan necked draw hoe the handle is inserted in a socket which is connected with the blade by a curved, solid neck. The blade should be made of steel plates, welded on iron necks.

Swan Necked Draw Hoe

In the swan necked draw hoe the handle is inserted in a socket which is connected with the blade by…

Triangular hoes are sometimes used for making drills.

Triangular Hoe

Triangular hoes are sometimes used for making drills.