| Show MACHINE REES handles from to seedlings in a day new invention Is being used under direction of officials of the united states forest service A machine which plants to forest tree seedlings a day it 14 now being used at the letchworth park forest and arboretum in wyoming county new york according to boffl vials of tile the forest service who iio are adin inzes is advisers in ili the work previously tile the planting has been lone done by hand at the rate of 1000 to 1500 trees each day per man the machine inachin ewas was designed to set out clib cabbage bage and tomato plants but works equally well with nith trees it is about tile hie size of if an ordinary mowing machine and Is operated by three thre men and two horses one man drives the learn while chile the other two handle tile the seedlings the machine makes a furrow in which the trees are set at any desired distance and nn nix automatic device indicates where they should be dropped two metal tired wheels push and roll the dirt firmly down around the root this la Is a very desirable feature it is said because the trees tree tire are sure to die it if this Is not well done two attachments make it Ios possible sible to place water and fertilizer at the roots ot of each seedling another attachment marks the line on which the next row of trees Is to be planted no co cot cost t figures are available yet but officials say that the cost will be much le les lens s than when the planting is done by hand it is stated staffed that the machine can he be used on an any land and billich has been cleared and it not too rough to plow and harrow i i |
