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ously prepared by a double cultivator, which turns the 

 earth into ridges of two feet level surface and nearly 

 four feet apart. The planter is then driven in the fur- 

 rows between the ridges. Two boys are seated on the 

 rear of the machine, under a shady canopy, each with 

 a pile of 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 move- 

 ment that each boy 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 moistens 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 connedled 

 with one of the wheels. The plants are placed twenty- 

 three inches apart, and the distance between the rows 

 is three feet nine inches. One of the advantages of 

 this machine is that the roots of the plants are not 

 doubled up as in the stuifing hand process, but the 

 chief advantage is the saving of labor. One machine 

 operated by a driver and two skilful boys can do the 

 work of twelve men. The machine will plant ten 

 acres in a day and a half. 



Watering-Cart. — Where a small area of valuable 

 crops is to be covered only occasionally in a season, 

 very satisf acftory results may be obtained with a water- 

 ing-cart. The author has a friend in Colorado who 

 used one and was much pleased with it. He had an 

 orchard of over one hundred acres, for which he made 



