Milford chronicle., 1905-03-17
AGRICULTURAL DISCUSSIONS
OF Interest 10 Farmers and
Fruit Growers.
You Caa Transplant in Hot Weather.

You CaH Transplant in Hot Weather.
So good an authority as we know
Orange Judd was, has left to us, the
following, which is worth consideration
in plant setting days Of unaccOmmO-
dating weather:
"In the very hottest days during the
fore-part Of July, we reset several hum
dreds Of plants, at different hours Of
the day, without using the slightest
covering to protect them from the direct
rays Of the sun, and yet not one failure
occurred, and scarcely one plant IN
twenty showed signs Of even temporary
dropping.
We venture to say that we can take
up any kind Of a plant not over foot
high, and move it to a new locality in
the middle Of the day, in the driest sea
son, and that too, with scarcely check
ing its growth.
We make these positive statements to
call attention to the mode cooperating.
LIST. Thoroughly wet the earth around
the plant to be taken up. Repeat the
wetting several times during an hour,
until the water penetrates to the bottom
Of the fifrous roots.
End. With a trowel, shiBgle, or thin
board in the right hand loosen a mass
Of earth around plant, grasp this earth
with the left hand and press it into a
ball which shall contain large share
of the roots surrounded with the origi.
nal earth.
Set this into basket with as many
more similarly taken up. as the basket
bottom will hold. Garry them to the
new location.
3rd, Dig for each plant hole large
enough to hold at least two quarts of
water.
Pour it full of water and hold the
plant in it with one hand, and with
The other draw ia the loose earth as
fast as the water sinks away, so as to
keep the hole full of water until it is
all soaked up.
Let the plant stand at the same depth
10 the earth as it stood originally.
4th. Important. Draw over the sur
ace of the hole, thus filled, half an
nch Of dry earth.
This will be mOistened by the water
Oaked up from below, but will remain
,pen, and not matted or baked as is al
Ways the case when water is poured
IpOn the top.
The whole Of the above is quickly
and your plants then stand
n thoroughly mOistened mass of soil,
nd their feeding roots, having been
undisturbed, carry on their
unctiOns as if nothing had happened.
They will even do better than the
plants standing in dry ground
T watered upon the surface only.
Cucumber vines. corr, cabbage plants,
4 short, any and every variety of plants
nay be transplanted whenever you de
Ire with perfect safety. We speak from
K xperience as well as theory "
This mode" Mr.. Editor, may be
impracticable for the acre
ransplanting, so cOmmOn in this cOun-
". .
But there are times when il would
rove helpful to set certain plants when
nd where it was most convenient to 1
le planter, regardless Of the weather.
Waiting upon the coming Of showers
'hich are long in coming, means lack
! profit many times. The water for
lants before, during or after trans
lanting, in fact for any such use, Z
louId never be too cold, chilling the
,Ots. The temperature Of the air and
lter should equal.
Thoroughly practical transplantine is
most fine art, in trucking methods.
hese instructions are for those new to