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Planting Tobacco with a One-Man 

 Planting Machine 



THE old way of setting-out tobacco, 

 tomato, cabbage, and similar plants, 

 was to wait for a showery day, when the 

 ground was damp, take up the plants, and 

 feverishly and laboriously go over the 

 ground with a "peg" and replant them 

 before the ground got dry again. Now, 

 however, there is a machine on the market 

 that does away with all the waiting, all 

 the feverish haste, and all the attendant 

 backache. In addition the plants are 

 better planted, and very few are lost 

 through withering, while the output is 

 several times that of the old method. 



In operation the ground is laid out, and 

 barrels of water placed at convenient 

 places in the field, together with boxes of 

 plants. The large cylinder of the ma- 

 chine is filled with water, and the operator 

 takes the machine and a basket of plants 

 (which can be slung around his neck for 

 convenience) into the field. He stabs the 

 point into the ground, drops a plant down 

 the smaller tube and releases the trap. 

 This inserts the plant into the soil and at 

 the same time waters it and presses it 

 down firmly. 



As the machine irrigates the plants as it 

 goes along, it is unnecessary to watch the 

 weather as formerly, and plants that are 

 set out in dry weather do as well as those 

 that are set out in 

 the damper 

 weather. 



The machine 

 does away with all 

 the body-racking, 

 backaching stoop- 

 ing over that used 

 to make setting- 

 out the bete noire of 

 all market-garden- 

 ers. Consequently 

 more pains are 

 taken by the men, 

 as it is no longer a 

 hated job to be 

 got rid of as quickly 

 as possible. In 

 other words, it is 

 a device of this 

 kind that makes 

 market gardening 

 a pleasure. 



The machine, slung around the neck, sets 

 and waters the plants simultaneously 



Roller-carrying frame which enables a 

 boat to be launched from a listed ship 



Rolling Down a Ship's Side to 

 Safety in a Lifeboat 



A SHIP which is torpedoed rarely sinks 

 on an even keel. Whether it lists to 

 starboard or port depends on the location 

 of the injury. The crew and passengers 

 rush to the high side, clamber into the 

 lifeboats, and drop to safety if they can. 

 We say "If they can" because frequently 

 the boats strike not the water, but the iron 

 plating of the ship's 

 side. 



To prevent just 

 such accidents, a 

 new method of 

 launching life- 

 boats has been in- 

 vented. A cradle 

 frame is attached 

 to the outside of 

 the lifeboat near- 

 est the ship. If the 

 ship lists, the life- 

 boat rides down 

 the ship safely on 

 little rollers with 

 which the cradle 

 frame is provided. 

 The frame and its 

 rollers also serve to 

 keep the boat at a 

 safe distance from 

 the sinking ship. 



