carrier, accompany each cabin. 



The "board consists of t-ao six-foot 



strips about five inches wide and half an inch thick, usually 

 of pine. rer edge of the undrpieee is faoed with 



strips eqiial to the tree interval in length, separated "by a 

 square notch of about three- eih the of an inch in width.. Two 

 handles aro fastened on each board, and hinged in such a 

 manner that the upper board fits down on the lower piece Just 

 above I c tehee, thus grasping the twr firmly. The trees 

 are threaded in the cabins and the "board carried to the trench, 

 where it ia placod resting on the inner edge in such ti Manner 

 that tho roots h-^g down against the enu.ai*e out f^ofe of the 

 dit The <*artli ie filled by two rackere and soundly p:,cked 



by a third mr-n. A fourl i1?er of the racking crew follows 



behind the gsmg filling fail plac~~ -"id tr^unping t])e tree lines 

 tc insure each tree "-eiaj; soun^i- T?l--.nted. 



The oo.re the folloiTlnp two oumraers is 



similar. The compartments ars kept free of weeds and cultivated, 

 as n. dry soil surface uulcli greatly %t* i ^ t;,e retention of 

 uoisture. Before t' o fleeae-up in the full, it IE again v/ell to 

 cultivate , as the upper layers are loosened a-vi mulci'. reduces 

 the .(-,e from heaving. This nulchinj; c;-.n oe do no vi th a hoe, 



or moro economically vd tli one of the ^id-puahed cultivators 



in the agricultural ira.pla.ie/ro ni rket. Looal diff icultloa such 



