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a sink and drain, running water if possible, a hot-water barrel, 
shelves, and a long dining table with benches. A small storeroom 
for supplies and a bedroom for the cook and cookee should be par- 
titioned off. 
NURSERY EQUIPMENT. 
Considerable equipment is necessary in a nursery. The loss of 
time and increase in labor and trouble caused by insufficient equip- 
ment will ordinarily amount in a short time to more than the cost of 
an adequate supply. The equipment is not the same in all nurseries ; 
but that generally needed and its current cost in 1913 is indicated 
below : 
Equipment. 
Cost. 
Team 
Box wagon 
Plow, 14-inch 
Harrow 
Axes with handles: 
Single bit 
Double bit 
Shovels 
Spades 
Rakes 
Mattocks with handles . 
Picks with handles 
Sledge No. 6 
Post-hole digger 
Crowbar, per pound . . . 
Forge 
Anvil, per pound 
Tools for forge, per set . 
Hoes. 
Pipe tools: 
Threader and dies for 1-inch and 2-inch pipe . 
Pipe vise - 
Stillson wrenches, 14 -inch 
Stillson wrenches, 18-inch 
Hammer 
Carpenter's saw 
Steel square 
Chisels 
Brace 
Set of bits for brace 
Bench screw for vise 
Hose, per linear foot 
Mole trap 
Gopher trap 
Mouse trap 
Nails, per pound 
Screws (price varies) 
Planting boards (price varies) 
Heavy flax twine, per pound 
Wheelbarrow (steel) 
Scale for weighing seed 
$350-$400 
75- 100 
16.50 
18.00 
1.75 
2.00 
1.25 
1.25 
.75 
1.25 
1.25 
1.10 
1.75 
.08 
10.00 
.13 
12.00 
.75 
7.50 
2.25 
.65 
.90 
.75 
2.00 
1.50 
.50-1.50 
1.25 
4.50 
.75 
.12 
1.25 
1.25 
.05 
.05 
".'50-2.' 50 
.35 
7.50 
10.00 
In addition, it is always well to have on hand a little lumber- 
dimension stuff, planks, and boards. 
NURSERY OPERATIONS. 
NURSERY SUPERVISION. 
The measure of success in nursery practice is the character of 
the stock produced and its cost. The various operations should 
therefore be under the supervision of an efficient executive or fore- 
man, one who is thoroughly practical, a close observer, constantly 
