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perienced planter, with a boy to drop the plants, as we 

 invariably practise, will plant from 6000 to 10,000 plants 

 per day, according to the kind of plant or condition of 

 the ground. I have on many occasions planted, in one 

 day, three acres of Celery, holding about 90,000 plants, 

 with ten men, each of whom had a boy, from ten to four- 

 teen 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 dividing the labor, 

 a boy and a man will do more planting than two men 

 would if plai ting singly, and each carrying his own plants. 



