. The culture of flue-cured tobacco. Tobacco. 24 BULLETIN 16, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. When transplanting, so far as possible use only good, strong plants of uniform size. The plants should be kept straight and the roots well mulched and protected from the drying wind and sun in order to retain their vitality as much as possible, which will help materially in insuring a good start in growing. In the flue-cured districts the greater portion of the crop is transplanted by hand in a natural season, using a peg for making holes and pressing the earth to the roots. But more or less setting
. The culture of flue-cured tobacco. Tobacco. 24 BULLETIN 16, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. When transplanting, so far as possible use only good, strong plants of uniform size. The plants should be kept straight and the roots well mulched and protected from the drying wind and sun in order to retain their vitality as much as possible, which will help materially in insuring a good start in growing. In the flue-cured districts the greater portion of the crop is transplanted by hand in a natural season, using a peg for making holes and pressing the earth to the roots. But more or less setting with water in times of drought is resorted to almost every year in some sections. For this purpose a special hand planter is often used. This is an effective and inex- pensive implement. It has the merit of putting the water imme-. Fig. 5.—A 2-horse machine transplanter at work. A machine of this kind may be seen here and there in the flue-cured tobacco district, particularly in the New Belt section. diately around the roots where needed, and it is thought that the plants grow better than when set and hand watered with dippers. The 2-horse machine setter is in use to a limited extent in some neigh- borhoods, but, of course, is adapted only to smooth fields and soft land. A view of one of these machine setters at work in Snow County, N. C, is shown in figure 5. The expense of machine setting is about the same as for hand setting, but there is the advantage of being able to go ahead with the setting when the plants are right, independently of the weather. The water is put at the roots and the plants live as well or better than hand-set plants. In from three to five days after the field is set out it should be gone over again and carefully replanted with the best plants avail-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the
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