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SEEDING AND PLANTING 



serts the plant, thus performing the entire operation. In other 

 instances the trees are carried by one or two members of the crew 

 and given to the planters one at a time as needed. Again a por- 

 tion of the crew may make the holes, while another inserts the 

 plants. 



When the planting crew consists of 11 men, namely, 5 hole 



diggers, 5 planters, 

 and 1 foreman, the 

 arrangement of the 

 men may be as fol- 

 lows (Fig. 104) : The 

 5 hole diggers are ar- 

 ranged in a line at 

 one end of the field, 

 4, 6 or 8 feet apart 

 depending upon the 

 spacing. The flanking 

 man, or number 1, de- 

 termines the direction, 

 speed of planting, and 

 the spacing. He ad- 

 vances across the field 

 and makes the holes 

 at the desired inter- 

 vals. Number 2 keeps 

 one planting space be- 

 hind number 1, and 

 number 3 one space be- 

 hind number 2. This 

 brings the line of dig- 

 gers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 

 diagonal to the direc- 

 tion of planting. This 

 FIG. 104. Diagram of the position of the men in ... j ui 



, ?. . , . position is desirable in 



a planting crew ot 11 workmen. 



order to keep the spac- 

 ing reasonably uniform at the least effort. The 5 planters 

 (a, 6, c, d, e) should be kept at right angles to the direction of 

 the planting in order to attain adequate supervision. After 

 planting across the field, hole digger number 5 becomes the 

 flanking man and the position of the entire crew is reversed. If 



