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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry181912amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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326 AMERICAN FORESTRY
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WOVEN SLATTING CRATES USED FOR A SHIPMENT OF FIVE THOUSAND TRANSPLANTS TO A RANGER sery, Nebraska National Forest, is very satisfactory where protection from rodents is unnecessary. It consists of slatting in 50-foot rolls stretched over a track of lx2"s. A row of 2x2 stakes on each side of the bed supports the track 12 to 14 inches above the sur- face of the bed. If the bed is curbed the stakes are placed just inside the curbing and the lx2's nailed to the inner sides of the stakes. When weed- ing the slatting is loosened at one end and rolled back, the track serving to steady the laborer and making it un- necessary for him to put one hand down in the bed when leaning over at work. STORAGE When coniferous seedlings are dug for transplanting or when transplants are taken up for field planting it some- times becomes necessary to hold large numbers in storage for a greater or less length of time while the planting is in progress. To do this without injury to the stock it is important that provision be made to prevent rapid transpiration lest the equilibrium in the moisture con- tent of the plant be disturbed and its vitality seriously reduced. Heeling-in is a common practice, but if there is not space for this in the storage house and it must be done out- side the plants should be covered with a thick blanket of straw or other mulch supported on slatting a few inches above the tops of the trees. This method of covering permits a free cir- culation of air for the tops, but keeps them from warming up enough in the middle of the day to cause "forcing." In 1908, when handling a very large number of coniferous seedlings at the Halsey Nursery, I found that good re- sults could be obtained from stacking

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