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greatest importance. If we neglect to set all the plants 

 that we have room for, we must not complain if the crop 

 falls short of our expectations, and far short of what the 

 land is able to produce. 



Setting the Plants. 



The first step in the operation of setting the plants is to 



mark out the rows. A garden marker, such as is shown in 



Fig. 15, is quickly and easily made, and will do well enough 



when you have nothing better. You have to pull it over the 



Fig. 15. 



Simple Hand Marker. 



ground, and when you want to see what the marker is doing 

 you have to walk backward, like a river-crab, and in the 

 meantime perhaps get out of the right direction yourself. 



I like a marker that is to be pushed ahead, not pulled 

 after you, and that will enable the operator to keep the 

 direction, and see whether he makes straight marks or 

 crooked ones. 



Fig. 16 illustrates an extremely simple device. To make 

 this marker, take three pieces of board, say fifteen or eighteen 

 inches long, rounded off sleigh-runner fashion ; have them 

 twelve inches apart, nail a piece across ihe top on the 

 straight side, and fasten a handle, as shown. 



