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CIbe national nurseryman 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XIX ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY, 1911 ~ No. i 
A SYMPOSIUM ON NURSERYMEN’S IMPLEMENTS 
Experiences in the Use of Labor-Saving Devices 
Recent Improvements 
The following note was sent to representative nurserymen in 
different parts of the country with a view of getting a line on the 
present status of labor saving machinery, and nursery practice. “Will 
you be kind enough to assist in 
an interchange of experience on 
recent advance in kind and 
type of field implements design¬ 
ed for nursery operations 
directly or indirectly?” Then 
followed the series of questions 
given below. The answers are 
interesting and instructive. A 
summary or digest of these will 
be presented in the next issue of 
the National Nurseryman. 
THE BEST OF THE OLDER 
IMPLEMENTS 
What implements among 
the older types are you 
continuing to have most 
satisfaction in using? 
Planet Jr. five-tooth culti¬ 
vator with attachments, also 
one-horse plow.—Bechtel Pe¬ 
can Nurseries, Ocean Springs, 
Miss. 
Four and six-shovel cultivators; surface cultivators.—E. P. 
Bernardin, Parsons, Kansas. 
Two-horse Planet Jr., sulky two-row cultivators.—Brown 
Brothers Co., Browns’ Nurseries, Ontario. 
Fourteen-inch turning plows, harrows, disks, drags, Jumbo cul¬ 
tivators for large trees and Jennie Linn for the smaller.—Des Moines 
Nursery Co., Des Moines, Iowa. 
One-horse walking cultivator and small bar shear cotton plow.— 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md. 
One-horse cultivator.—J. Van Bindley Nursery Co., Pomona, 
N. C. 
Planet cultivators. Acme harrow, Fiegley tree digger, chilled 
steel plows, in sandy land. Broad ( 3 -in.) solid steel dibbles, Ames 
full-strapped nursery spades, Wiss pruning shear.—T. V. Munson 
& Son, Denison, Texas. 
"Bragg tree digger, also a side digger on small trees and shrubbery. 
—W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, O. 
Planet Jr. two-horse riding cultivators.—vSmith Brothers, Con¬ 
cord, Ga. 
Planet Junior and John Deer.—Carl Sonderregger, Beatrice, 
Nebr. 
Daisy or sxiring tooth two-horse cultivator.—L. R. Taylor & 
Sons, Topeka, Kansas. 
The trencher, used in making furrow for planting grafts, cuttings, 
strawberries, etc.—Wedge Nursery, Albert Lea, Minn. 
Gathering nuts from a Pomeroy Walnut near Lockport, N. Y 
Bragg tree digger, disk cultivators, disk harrows, low, fla^ 
wagons, pruning shears, and jiotato hooks, in early weeding of 
grafts, seedlings, etc.—Whiting Nursery Co., Yankton, S. D. 
THE BEST OF THE NEWER 
IMPLEMENTS 
What labor-saving im¬ 
plements among the newer 
kinds do you find especially 
useful in your soil? 
Ilgenfritz trencher and 
firmer. Reed graft wrapping 
machine and Perfeetion plant¬ 
er. Barnes Bros. Nursery Co., 
Yalesville, Conn. 
Cutaway disk double action. 
—Bechtel Pecan Nurseries, 
Ocean Springs, Miss. 
The opener for planting.— 
E. P. Bernardin, Parsons, 
Kansas. 
Tongueless harrow, peach 
pit planter.—Brown Brothers 
Co., Browns Nurseries, Ontario. 
Side drill two-horse cultiva¬ 
tor attached—fertilize at same 
time.—J. G. Harrison & Sons, 
Berlin, Md. 
Trenchers and firmers.—Hoopes Bro. & Thomas Co., West 
Chester, Pa. 
Stark digger, Ilgenfritz opener and firmer, Hallock weeder.—J. 
Van Bindley Nursery Co., Pomona, N. C. 
Whitney tree-digger. Stark digger.—F. W. Meneray, Council 
Bluffs, Iowa. 
Hazeltine hand-weeders.—T. V. Munson & Son, Denison, Texas. 
Transplanter for putting out small fruit plants.—-W. N. Scarff, 
New Carlisle, O. 
Four row beet cultivator.—Carl Sonderregger, Beatrice, Nebr. 
Opener and presser for planting grafts and budding stock. L. R. 
Taylor & Sons, Topeka, Kansas. 
A modified form of the Stark graft winder—Wedge Nursery, 
Albert Lea, Minn. 
The trencher and packer for stocks and cuttings is very satis¬ 
factory (Clinton Falls Nursery Co.), and we want to add the auto 
truck for heavy hg.uling next year.—Whiting N ursery Co., Yankton, 
S. D. 
THE SUBSOILER AND TREE DIGGER 
Do you use a subsoiler? What type? 
No.—Barnes Bros. Nursery Co., Yalesville, Conn. 
No.—Bechtel Pecan Nurseries, Ocean Springs, Miss. 
No.—E. P. Bernardin, Parsons, Kansas. 
No.-—Brown Brothers Co., Browns Nurseries, Ontario. 
