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Piecework System of Grading and Tying Seedlings

We instituted a piecework system of counting, culling, and tying seedlings in the fall of 1960. We set up ordinary large tables and put two boxes of loose seedlings in the middle of each table. The boxes were placed on edge for ease of removing seedlings. Four women worked at each table; and each woman was supplied with a stool and cushion, cleaver and block for pruning roots, a bundle of plastic coated wires precut to length, a counting board made of a 2x4 with 21 nails in it to provide 20 spaces wide enough for a bundle, and a prepared crate (fig. 1). The women also had special sticks marked for minimum and maximum root and top lengths and notched for stem diameter.


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Author(s): J. D. Griffiths

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 47 (1961)