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SEEDING AND PLANTING 



soils, fairly free from stones, roots, and soil cover, a maximum 

 of 1000 plants can be set by 1 workman in a day of 9 hours. 

 Under adverse soil conditions and with transplanted stock, this 

 may be reduced to 250. From 500 to 600 coniferous transplants 

 is the average number that can be planted in 1 day. 



In conducting a planting operation where the plants are set in 

 holes made with the grub-hoe or mattock, the planting crew is 

 usually divided into units of 2 men each, with a foreman over 

 each group of 5 to 10 units. One workman in each unit digs the 



Photograph by C. K. Petlis 



FIG. 128. Planting white pine (2-1) on a lumbered and burned area 

 in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. 



holes and the other follows with a pail or basket of seedlings or 

 transplants and sets the plants, filling in the earth about the roots 

 with a trowel or with his hands and firming it with his feet 

 (Fig. 128). Although the 2-man unit is most usually employed 

 in planting with the grub-hoe or mattock, better results can often 

 be attained with 1, 3, or more men in the planting unit, the 

 size varying with the character of the cover and the condition 

 of the soil. 



On areas covered with dense, high brush the cover impedes the 



