THE RUSHIRE FRUIT FARM, IONIA, MICH. 
This subsoiling should be done in the fall 
or very early in the spring, so the rains will 
fill the ground. If you cannot plow till 
late, omit the subsoiling because the ground 
being loosened so much would prevent cap- 
illary action from bringing water from the 
still lower subsoil, so it might prove an in- 
jury. We now lay off the ground and set 
plants with the 
Perfection Plant Setter. 
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Every root is now buried in moist, mellow , 
soil and braced in every direction so it can- 
not possibly be injured by the weeding ma- 
chine. 
No machine ever devised vrill set 
plants .so per- 
fectly and well. 
A vigorous 
growth will 
start at once. 
When you 
set a plant too 
low the crown 
often rots or 
makes a very 
feeble growth. 
(See Figure 5.) 
If the Plant 
is sei; too 
High the wind 
dries the roots out and if a slight spring 
frost comes after the plant is set, the 
roots freezing and thawing in open air, it 
dies, and thus many vacancies are maae. 
.MGUBB 1. 
Set it on the ground, placing your feet on 
pads (A Figure i) and give the handles one 
turn. The " cone " is ready (see Figure 2) 
and you pass along rapidly. 
FIGURE 3. 
PIGUKE 4. 
New Boots always come out above the 
old ones and unless the crown sets down in 
the ground no new roots can start nor will 
new fruiting crowns form. (See Fig. 6). 
The Perfection 
plant setter is (see 
fig. I, letter and c) 
gauged so you can 
not set too low or 
too high even by 
carelessness. 
If the plants are 
set with a spade or 
dibble the roots 
are always doubled 
up more or less 
FIGURE 6. 
FIGUEE 2. 
The boy follows, grasping the plant by 
the crown, turning the roots up, giving it a 
slight shake, when the roots fall over the 
hand (Figure 3) and it is quickly turned on 
the cone. (Figure 4.) 
The loose, mellow soil having been left 
immediately around the cavity is brushed 
back into the opening, or a boy follows with 
a hoe, stepping on the ground around the 
plant to firm it. 
(See fig. 7). On a larffC plamt the roots 
near the crown are so thick the earth cannot 
be worked in among them, hence they are 
sure to rot and poi- 
son the plant so it 
makes only a feeble 
growth. The roots 
are so close tot^ether 
the feeders do not 
have room for pas- 
turage, as they do 
when spread 
around the cone. 
(See figure 4.) 
FIOUBB 6. 
