Propagating and Shipping Young Stock 



even temperature throughout the house, underneath as well as above the 

 benches. The temperature above the benches should be 10 to 15 degrees 

 cooler than that under the benches. 



There should be no overhead heating pipes in the propagating house, 

 but the arrangement of piping should be such that the diffusion of heat 

 through the cheese cloth curtains at the side of the benches will be sufficient 

 to keep the atmosphere throughout the propagating house at the proper 

 temperature ; that is, 45 to 50 or 55 degrees. 



Propagating Mediums 



Many different materials can be used as media in which to strike cut- 

 tings. Sifted coal ashes or pulverized cinders mixed with sand may be 



Short Span -to South Propagating House 

 Width, 17 feet; height to ridge, 9 feet; width of benches, 5 feet 



employed. Cocoanut fiber, also ground sphagnum moss mixed with sand, 

 and a number of porous materials free from vegetable or fermenting or 

 decaying matter, have been used with success. 



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