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Use of a Potato Digger for Lifting Nursery Stock

The most costly project in the operation of a nursery is the lifting and packing of the stock. It sometimes costs more to lift and pack the stock than it does to grow it for 2 or 3 years in the seedbeds. Some improvements have been made in the past in the method of lifting the trees, but it is still a slow hard job which in 3-0 stock requires considerable energy to pull and shake the stock to remove the soil from the roots.


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Author(s): Edward D. Clifford

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 24 (1956)