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will stretch two clothes lines across, and then roll the 

 machine along over them. This makes good marks for 

 setting plants, and one can get them perfectly straight in 

 this manner, a task not quite so easy with the ordinary 

 marker. It is more convenient, however, to fasten pieces 

 of rope around the roller, one foot apart, one for each mark. 

 But the greatest advantage of this device is that cross-marks 

 can be made at the same time. Simply nail pieces of rope 

 or clothes-line lengthwise of the roller between the ropes 



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encircling it. The cross-marks will serve as a kind of guide 

 to the planters, and, if they are careful, or are held strictly 

 to the mark, they can easily set the plants at a uniform dis- 

 tance of each other. If the cross-marks are, say, one foot 

 apart, set three Prizetaker plants between each two marks, 

 and one right in it. 



In clean, mellow loam or muck, and with good plants, 

 the task of setting the plants is an easy one. Some of my 

 planters prefer to do the job with the fingers alone, without 



