v.] PLANTING. 



may be done in the case of planting by grain, 

 it cannot be done so conveniently. Some of 

 the dmig would be brought up by the driller or 

 by the hoe ; and, at any rate, the ground would 

 not have been so lately moved, and would not 

 have been so ready to give nourishment to the 

 plant. 



77. In stiff land, in particular, this mode of 

 planting might be desirable, such land is difficult 

 to get into fine tilth by the latter end of April. 

 Opportunities enough generally offer to do it be- 

 fore the first of June ; an additional ploughing 

 is of great advantage to it; and, by transplant- 

 ing, all the labour of rolling and harrowing is 

 completely saved. These are very great advan- 

 tages ; very strong reasons on the side of trans- 

 planting. In this case, too, a hand-hoeing is saved, 

 and you avoid completely all injury from slugs, 

 from birds, and from hurt that the seed may re- 

 ceive under the ground. 



78. The act of transplanting should be care-r 

 fully performed by a man who knows how to 

 use a dibble or setting-stick, such as is used for 

 the transplanting of cabbage plants or lettuces, 

 and such a man will, with ease, transplant an 

 acre in a day, if the plants be laid out for him in 

 the manner before directed. But he m.ust not 

 be suffered to do the work in a slovenly or care- 

 less manner. He must not make the hole too 



