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turned with a large tree and ball of earth six or seven feet 

 in diameter and eight inches in thickness, loading and un- 

 loading entirely alone, in two hours and a half. We men- 

 tion this fact to show the efficiency of the machine, and 

 that it may be handled and worked advantageously by one 

 man who knows how to handle such an apparatus. 



Instances are of common occurrence where it is desirable 

 to remove valuable fruit-trees in the summer or late in the 

 spring, when we can not avail ourselves of a frozen ball of 

 earth. When the writer was about seventeen years of age, 

 a valuable pear-tree was to be removed, in order to make 

 room for the wood-house. It was so old and large, that 

 every one thought it absurd to attempt to transplant it 

 with any expectation of its living. We had eaten too many 

 delicious pears from that tree to see it cut down, which was 

 the orders ; but, in laudable obstinacy, we took it up in the 

 middle of June and transplanted it, and it bore pears the 

 same year, and is a valuable bearer even at the present 

 writing. 



We have seen a great many valuable fruit-trees cut down 

 which might have been taken up and transplanted with very 

 little injury to their productiveness. When a few tall shade- 

 trees are wanted at once, such an apparatus will be found 

 of great convenience in taking them up. 



Removing large Trees without Tackles. A farmer, in 

 Western New York recently came in possession of a large 

 young orchard, the trees of which were standing in the 

 quincunx order, and were about as thick again as they 

 should stand. He removed every other row over four 

 hundred trees, from' seven to ten years' standing. He wrote 

 that the expense of removal was about forty cents each. 

 He employed long levers and a broad stone-boat, and three 

 men to load and unload the trees. According to his own 

 account, the labor was performed in a very rough and un- 



