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Use and Modification of Machines in Alabama

At present this Company has two planting machines, a Lowther 1949 model, and a Purdue-ICRR 1950 model. Their use, after suitable modification, has given such excellent survival that we do not plan ever to plant by hand again. We have planted in all types of soil, ranging from Rushton, fine, sandy loam to a mucky, prairie-type soil of the toughest kind. Pulling the Lowther with a D-4 tractor, we plant any soils, except the lightest sands, the roughest terrain, and cut or burned over lands. For the easier going on more level terrain with light and solid soils, we use the ICRR planter pulled by a dual-wheel Ford tractor. To go where and when we wish, we have found this combination to be unbeatable.


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Author(s): Dan C. Royal

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 6 (1951)