AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 75 
The organisation for the whole work of transplanting is shown in the 
following table :— 
TRANSPLANT CREW, SAVENAC NURSERY, 1915. 
Olsen, in ae of Nursery. 
Foreman. 
Supervision Grinding plough Moving tables 
Laying-out beds Trrigating* Seeing to repairs 
| | | | | 
Ploughman— Crew No. 1 Crew No. 2 Crew No. 3 Crew No. 4 
drives plough- Threader Threader Threader Threader 
horse, Planter. Planter. Planter. Planter. 
cleans trenches, 
moves tables, 
tends plants, 
carries drinking- 
water. 
* The foreman makes the irrigation laterals in the centre of the 2 ft. space between the beds, as 
each bed is planted. 
Stock distribution is now being placed under scientific management. 
The Feigly Tree Digger is used to lift the plants. It resembles a plough, 
but has a share like an L-shaped knife, with a wedge-shaped piece of iron 
attached to the blade, an inch back from the cutting edge. It is drawn by 
two horses in tandem along the row of plants, and severs the roots, about 
seven inches below the surface, raising the plants so that the slice of earth 
breaks up when it falls back into place behind the Digger, leaving the trees 
so that they can be pulled from the ground quite easily, yet without exposing 
the roots. 
Where formerly it took one man with a spade to lift what two men could 
pull, with the Tree Digger two men can lift enough to keep twenty men 
pulling. 
Considerable loss resulted from the use of the Digger during the first 
experimental stages. 
The order of lifting is as follows :— 
6 
12 
15 
11 = 
5 ed 
2 4 
< 10 
< 14 
= Ss 
zZ.. 
NN 
4 
13 > 
7 Ss 
> 
The men follow the Digger, pull the plants and tie them up in bunches 
of a hundred. These bunches are laid down, and the roots covered with a 
handful of dirt. 
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