TRANSPLANTING. 



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made of some hard seasoned wood, with a rounded 

 point, is used for making a hole in the hill, of proper 

 depth and size. The plant is then placed in position 

 and the soil pressed compactly about the roots by the 

 pressure of the planting peg against one side of the 

 hole. The use of a hand plant is very convenient to 

 the setter of tobacco. When he begins, he takes an 

 extra plant in his left hand and adjusts its roots down- 



FIG. 27. FIRST IMPROVEMENT ON OLD STYLE SHOWN IN FIG. 26. 



ward, while he is making the hole for the plant with the 

 peg in his right hand. When this hand plant has been 

 set in the first hill, he takes up the plant dropped on 

 that hill and passes to the second, adjusting in his left 

 hand as he moves from the first to the second hill, 

 so as to be ready to thrust the roots into the hole made 

 in the second hill. The plant on the second hill in like 

 manner is carried to the third. Such an extra plant is 



