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large two or more gates can be put in, in the same way. 

 After the storm is over and the water recedes, the gate is 

 raised. 



The Transplanting Machine. This is a sort of 

 an irrigation system on wheels, and while it was origi- 

 nally invented for planting tobacco, it serves as well for 

 sweet potatoes, tomatoes and cabbage. The machine is 

 not unlike a mower in general appearance and costs $70. 

 It is drawn by two horses. The field is previously pre- 

 pared by a double cultivator, which turns the earth into 

 ridges of two feet level surface and nearly four feet 

 apart. The planter ft then driven in the furrows be- 

 tween the ridges. Two boys are seated on the rear of 

 the machine, -under a shady canopy, each with a pile of 



FIG. 90. WATER GATE, 

 STANDING POSITION. 



FIG. 91. WATER GATE, 

 WHILE WATER IS HIGH. 



plants at his side. As the machine is driven along a 

 sort of a small plow called a marker opens a space in the 

 ridge into which the boys place the plants, alternating 

 with each other, but so rapid is the movement that each 

 l)oy is kept busy placing plants in the ground. As the 

 plant is thus placed, a stream of water is let out of the 

 barrel carried under the seat of the driver, which mois- 

 tens the plant. The roots of the plant are then covered 

 with soil by two small shares which follow and close the 

 earth over the ridge, as when the cultivator left it. The 

 valve letting out the jet of water from the barrel is 

 operated by a cam connected with one of the wheels. 

 The plants are placed twenty-three inches apart, and the 



