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A Planting Bar Extension for Setting Large-Rooted Seedlings

When hardwood seedlings are hand planted, it is almost impossible to properly arrange the large root systems in the slit made by an ordinary 3-inch planting bar. However, there are numerous advantages in bar planting over mattock or shovel planting. Bar planting is faster, cheaper, and a system that laborers like because they are used to it.


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Author(s): H. H. Whisinant, David F. Olson, Jr.

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 36 (1959)