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the board, a V-shaped trench can be made of the proper depth. 

 The rapidity of trenching depends very largely upon the condition 

 of the transplant bed. It pays to have the bed in good tilth, the 

 soil loose and free from stones. When the trench is made and 

 the trenching board still in position, the transplanting board filled 

 with plants is brought to the trenching board and placed in posi- 

 tion so that the ends of the handles on the back of the trans- 

 planting board fit over the edge of the trenching board. This 

 will permit the roots of the seedlings to hang down in the trench 

 at the proper depth and will require no attention on the part of 

 the man handling the board to adjust it so that the seedlings will 

 be planted at the proper depth. When the board is placed in 

 position the earth can be quickly filled in about the seedlings and 

 firmed down with the feet. The keys on the transplanting board 

 are released and with a slight upward movement the board re- 

 moved. 



In filling the transplant boards the "stringers" should hold a 

 bundle of plants in the left hand, and beginning at the right end 

 of the board, put the plants in position in the board with the right 

 hand, being careful to adjust them to the proper depth. When 

 !the board is filled, the upper strip is swung into position over the 

 plants and fastened. The man who takes the transplanting board 

 to the trench should seize it with both hands, facing the board 

 from the front, lifting it so that his thumbs point toward the 

 upper end of the handles. If five persons are working in a crew, 

 it is usually best for two to trench and fill in about the plants, 

 two to string, and one to handle the transplanting boards in 

 placing them in position. Where ten persons work in a crew, 

 there will ordinarily be two trenches, two men filling in about the 

 plants, two carrying the boards, and four stringing. 



In working these boards it is very necessary for the foreman 

 to eliminate as many unnecessary motions as possible and de- 

 velop rapidity of movement in the workmen. The work is light 

 and rapidity of movement is absolutely necessary in order to 

 reach high efficiency. With a well-trained crew of five persons 

 working on loose soil free from stones, from 25,000 to 35,000 

 coniferous seedlings should be set in the transplant bed in a 

 single day. If properly handled, this board will set plants better 

 and more uniformly as well as much more rapidly than they can 



