AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 71 
When a round trip has been made, the ploughman cleans out the loose 
dirt from the trench with a specially designed hoe, having a blade 2 ft. wide. 
The men who take up seedling stock are selected for speed. They can 
pull about 30,000 per day. 
The seedlings are taken up from the seedbeds in bunches of about seventy- 
five, with spading forks; the dirt is shaken from their roots; the roots are 
then pruned with a small butcher’s cleaver in co-operation with a wooden 
block. The seedlings are placed in long narrow ‘boxes called “seedling 
packets ” which hold fifty bunches in two layers. The bunches are separated 
by long nails driven into the centre of the box. They are protected from 
drying out by placing round each layer a strip of moist burlap. ; 
Trenching Plow 
Trench Cleaner 
Seedling Packet 
“4 Transplent Board 
s Plantin g Rake 
The trees are not puddled or washed at the nursery from the time they 
germinate until they leave. 
The packets are placed four in a crate, and taken to the transplant ground 
each morning and noon, on a slide drawn by the plough horse. 
The essential machinery of transplanting consists of two ingenious labour- 
saving devices, the introduction of which into Australia should result in very 
considerable advantage. 
