| Show w EPHRAIM MAN If VENTS INVENTS FOREST TREE PLANTER PUNIER rr F A N N. N P. P Jensens Jensen's Machine Holds Attention n t of Forest Officers The rhe December 27 7 issue of The Country Gentleman c contains the tha it 5 following article of Inte Interest cst to Ephra Ephraim im readers i Tho The United States Staten Forest Service c now reforesting the waste pla places es at atSy atthe atthe y S-y S. S the rate of ot acres a year will be beable beiS iS able to double perhaps treble this s. s area by a simple tree-planting tree machine machine mach mach- p ine me just invented It has been tested at the forest service experiment sta eta station tion Lion at Ephraim Utah al and d the tho report report re reo port made to headquarters at at Wa Washington Wash Wash- hington h- h ington was wa that the tho machine had proved its itc worth N. N P. P Jensen a blacksmith who lives near the Ephraim Ephra- Ephra im station is the inventor Forestry experts in Washington say pay I that three men working together plant on th the tho avera average o about a tree treo a minute Tests Teats with the machine they s say say y have shown that one man c can n p plant ont from 75 to 85 trees an hour and r rf I V F.-V tV v i f a S LL L S that no no effort effort effort- was made to se secure se- se Jt cuie cure e record record At this rate one oner I r man with the tho machine can plant trees fa faster ter thana two-man two or 01 a three man crew can without it und and the device E. E wiIl will will-verj very likely he be l used fled in the the laks I of reforesting the acres of idle land i in iii the national for forests r I In In reporting on the results of his bin tests with the tree planter the forS forester for for- ester in charge of the Ephraim station eta sta tion thin says Bays II We W found that trees rel's th thus K U planted were so firmly set Het that their tops would break off before the plants would pull up After later ins ec f I turn tiun h he says nays The They looked fully as aswell i well wall an as plants set Rot care carefully ully by hy hand handin r r f. r in iv an a adjoining experimental plat V Tests w were re made with both Western and Douglas fir tir In one place where tho the soil was wa both Wt au aud sticky th t machine would not work t. t The Tho picture store shows the the rn machine chue f ready to 0 receive the plant which i ia is I I Inserted in the groove between the knives A third knife is closed over 0 i I I the he plant by moving the small horizontal horizontal hori hori- lever just above the knife to a vertical po position Then the plant is in a three three cornered cornered hollow bollow dibble the top J bei being held beld by its leav leav- leaves es CM in the the apace formed by br the flare at athe atthe atthe the he top of the knives The machines machine is s then thrust into the ground to the tall full dl di of the kni knives vet and turned to he the right At the same time timothe the lever at the tilt top of the handle han Je is pulled in This his op operates rates to open the k knives ives rhel These e knives which are turned to toa toa toa a 45 degree angle in the direction of rotation and which are made or steel teel thrust the soil iI in forcibly to- to ward vard the center center as 5 the machine lH hina is it turned f fO to the 1 right bf thus packing packing- the tho earth arth against g the root of the plant throughout it its entire length |
