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plants may be set as rapidly by this device as by any 
hand method. Comparatively few men are able to set 
as many as 8,000 plants a day, and most laborers fall 
below 5,000, except in close planting under the most 
favorable conditions. 
In frame and greenhouse work small dibbers or trans- 
planting sticks are in common use. The holes may be 
made and the plants fastened in the same manner as 
FIG. 36. TRANSPLANTING BOARD AND DIBBER 
when dibbers are used in the field. It is a great advan- 
tage to have the rows straight and a uniform number of 
plants in each bed or plant box. To accomplish this 
purpose and to facilitate the work, spotting boards are 
often used. Sometimes these have small blocks nailed 
in check rows on the under side, and these merely mark 
places on the soil for the plants without making holes. 
Other boards are made with pins which may be forced 
into the soil, making the holes for each plant, but unless 
the soil is sandy and of the right degree of moisture they 
will not work successfully. Figure 36 shows a trans- 
