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is similar in many ways to the ordinary potato hook, only 

 having two prongs which are longer, and the whole casting 

 somewhat heavier. By the use of this tool one man can 

 loosen up about as many as two men can pull or pick up. 

 One quick man can follow fairly well. These seedlings 

 need a little care in lifting, however, after being loosened by 

 the hoe. Where they have grown in sod ground as is often 



Fig. 5. Packing white pine seedlings for shipment, using the Boston marke* 



bushel box. 



the case in the meadow^ at the edge of the woods, one man 

 can loosen as many as three men can pick up as they should 

 be handled. It sometimes happens, however, where seed- 

 lings are growing in fine, deep, rich leaf mould that, if gath- 

 ered at the right season, they will come up as rapidly as 

 one can pick them, so easily do they free their roots from 

 the soil. 



A man can hold about twenty-five trees in his hand easily 

 and when this number has been pulled they may be put in 



