Transplanting Devices 



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toms of hard sods, 

 the field with the 

 suffer in the removal. 

 There are various kinds 

 of transplanting boxes 

 in the market. Some 

 melon growers use the 

 ordinary splint pint or 

 quart berry baskets, 

 which can be bought 

 very cheap. Others use 

 paper oyster buckets. A 

 common device in at 

 least one of the melon - 

 growing regions is shown 

 in Fig. 44. It is a mere 

 band or strip of basket- 

 splint which is tacked 

 together at the ends and 

 has neither top nor bot- 

 tom. The material is 

 cut at a basket -factory, 



The plants can then be taken to 

 earth intact, and they will not 



Fig. 43. Transplanting machines. 



The tipper one is the Bemis; and the lower ones the Tiger. 

 (See pages 190. 193-4.) 



