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a sink and drain, running water if possible, a hot-water barrel, 

 shelves, and a long dining table with benches. A srnnll storeroom 

 for supplies and a bedroom for the cook and cookee should be par 

 titioned off. 



NURSERY EQUIPMENT. 



Considerable equipment is necessary in a nursery. The loi 

 time and increase in labor and trouble caused by insufficient equip- 

 ment will ordinarily amount in a short time to more than the cosl of 

 an adequate supply. The equipment is not the same in all nurseries; 

 but that generally needed and its current cost in 1913 is indicated 

 below : 



Equipment. 





Team 



Box wagon 



Plow, 14-inch 



Harrow 



Axes with handles: 



Single bit 



Double bit 



Shovels 



Spades 



Rakes 



Mattocks with handles . 



Picks with handles 



Sledge No. 6 



Post-hole digger 



Crowbar, per pound . . . 

 Forge . 



Anvil, per pound 



Tools for forge, per set . 

 Hoes. 



Pipe tools: 



Threader and dies for 1-inch and 2-inch pipe . 



Pipe vise 



Stillson wrenches, 14 -inch 



Stillson wrenches, 18-inch 



Hammer 



Carpenter's saw 



Steel square 



Chisels 



Brace 



Set of bits for brace 



Bench screw for vise 



Hose, per linear foot 



Mole trap 



Gopher trap 



Mouse trap 



Nails, per pound 



Screws (price varies) 



Planting boards (price varies) . 

 Heavy flax twine, per pound . 



Wheelbarrow (steel) 



Scale for weighing seed 



S3.50-SIOO 

 75- 100 



18.00 



1.75 

 2.00 

 1.25 

 1.25 



. 75 

 1.25 

 1.2.5 

 1.10 

 1.7.5 



.08 

 10.00 



.13 

 12.00 



.75 



7.50 



2.25 



.65 



.90 



.75 



2.00 



.50-1.. 50 



1.25 



4.. 50 



.75 



.12 



1.25 



1.2.5 



.05 



.05 



. 50-2. .50 

 .35 

 ? ' 

 10.00 



In addition, it is always well to have on hand a little lumber- 

 dimension stuff, planks, and boards. 



NURSERY OPERATIONS. 



NURSERY SUPERVISION. 



The measure of success in nursery practice is the character 

 the stock produced and its cost. The various operations shot 

 therefore be under the supervision of an efficient executive or foi 

 man, oue who is thoroughly practical, a close observer, consta 



