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iron point, which gives weight to it, besides it always 

 keeps sharp. Dibbers are too often made from an old 



. 13u. HORSERADISH GRATER. 



spade or shovel handle, when they are awkward and un- 

 handy affairs. 



Planting is an operation that often requires the most 

 rapid movement to get the crop in at the proper time, 

 and the best appliances in working are not to be disre- 

 garded. With a Dibber of this style an expert planter 

 with a boy to drop the plants, as we invariably 

 practise, will plant from 6,000 to 10,000 per 

 day, according to the kind of plants or the 

 condition of the ground. I have on many oc- 

 casions planted in one day three acres of Celery, 

 holding about 90,000 plants with ten men, each 

 cf whom had a boy from ten to fourteen years 

 of age, to drop the plants down before him. 

 This plan of using boys is not generally adopted, 

 but I have repeatedly proved that, by thus di- F . 

 viding the labor, a boy and a man will do more DIBBER. 

 planting than two men would do if planting singly, and 

 each carrying his own plants. 



