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When completed, it looks like a hand hay-rake oh a 

 large scale. 



A horse or mule can be attached to this marker, 

 where there is a large field to be laid out. By mark- 

 ing the ground both ways, the labor of cultivation is 

 much lessened ; for the horse-cultivator can be run 

 both ways, leaving very little to be done by hand. 



Transplanting. — For Fall or Winter use, we be- 

 gin planting in the field about the middle of June, 

 and expect to finish by the first week in July. 



Moist or damp weather is desirable for trans- 

 planting. The plants are first pulled from the seed- 

 bed, and at once placed carefully in large baskets or 

 boxes. The long tap-roots are shortened to about 

 three inches. Each person is then fui'nished with a 

 " dibble," which is made by cutting off the upper 

 end of a common digging-fork handle, leaving a 

 shank about four inches long. This shank is made 

 smooth and round, and slightly pointed on the lower 

 end. Expert gardeners have a round iron shoe to 

 slip over this shank, so that, while planting, the earth 

 will not adhere to the dibble. 



The baskets of plants are placed at regular dis- 

 tances across the field, so that a handful of plants 

 taken from basket No. 1 will plant the row as far as 

 basket No. 2, and so on. The operator holds the 

 dibble in his right hand and a bundle of plants in 

 the left ; a hole is made at each intersection, and the 

 root of a plant placed in it, when, by another move- 

 ment of the dibble, the plant is fastened and the soil 

 made level around the stem — only requiring thrte 

 movements of the dibble to fasten a plant. 

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