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Mr. Reed: I do not know exactly, the water reservoir 

 holds about twelve quarts. 



Question: Do you have to stop and press the plants in? 



Mr. Reed: Not at all. The pressing would destroy the 

 mulch of dry dirt around the young plant which is of great 

 importance. 



Question: How do you carry your plants? 



Mr. Reed: I have a little basket about a foot wide and 

 fourteen inches long. The plants are laid in this so they 

 can be picked out with the left hand and dropped into the 

 setter. 



Question: Will your setter set strawberry plants? 



Mr. Reed: It is recommended to, but I have never set 

 any with it. 



Question: How deep do you set your plants? 



Mr. Reed: Possibly a little deeper than they were in the 

 seed bed. In good mellow ground the weight of the setter 

 will set them deep enough. 



Question: After setting in a very dry time, say in tne 

 afternoon with a hot sun, how many do you have to reset? 



Mr. Reed: Perhaps last season was one of the dryest 

 ones in this section. We set three and one-fourth acres in 

 one piece and in the fall I do not think there were over two 

 hundred plants missing from any cause. The man who cul- 

 tivated the piece thought he took out one hundred with the 

 cultivator. This piece was never reset. 



Question : Do you think it does any harm to break off 

 the lower leaves? 



Mr. Reed: I have heard this discussed quite a good deal. 

 I prefer not to have them broken off from my plants. 



Question: Would it do greater harm to leave off culti- 

 vation ? 



Mr. Reed: I think it would. We usually cultivate quite 

 late the wide way of the rows. 



Question: How many times do you hoe your cabbage? 



