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Children planting trees on Arbor Day.

Arbor Day

Children planting trees on Arbor Day.

Illustrated is a bank after planting. On low banks, where soil may be thoroughly prepared and well cared for, turf or any vigorous plant can be established.

Bank After Planting

Illustrated is a bank after planting. On low banks, where soil may be thoroughly prepared and well cared…

A bank can be defined as a very steep earth slope with a bare, shifting surface, requiring protection and planting. Illustrated is a bank before planting.

Bank Before Planting

A bank can be defined as a very steep earth slope with a bare, shifting surface, requiring protection…

Illustrated are banks held by moderate planting. The scenic features are not obscured.

Banks Held by Moderate Planting

Illustrated are banks held by moderate planting. The scenic features are not obscured.

Two young men prepare the field using a simple harrow pulled by a horse. One man follows behind the harrow. He is wearing a short tunic and his hood is pushed back. The other man goes in front of the horse, guiding it, and using a whip to drive it forward. Two birds fly overhead.

Harrowing a Field for Farming in the Middle Ages

Two young men prepare the field using a simple harrow pulled by a horse. One man follows behind the…

A transplanting machine. It sets and waters the plants as fast as the team pulls the machine along the rows. Two men on seats at the rear drop the plants at the required intervals.

Transplanting Machine

A transplanting machine. It sets and waters the plants as fast as the team pulls the machine along the…

"And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow; and as he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the birds came and devoured them: and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth: and straightway they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them: and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." Matthew 13:3-8 <p> Illustration of a man sowing seed. Around the man are rocky places, birds, thorns, and good soil. There is a bag of seed in the background.

Parable of the Sower

"And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow; and as he…

A hand corn planter used for replanting.

Corn Planter

A hand corn planter used for replanting.

The common or nursery way of planting

Planting

The common or nursery way of planting

The proper or pictorial type of planting

Planting

The proper or pictorial type of planting

Devices used to set sweet potato slips and vine cuttings. In setting out potatoes, the farmer uses either a garden dibble or small trowel, or a short sharpened stick; on soft soil the slip is pressed into place by the use of special devices, about as long as a walking-stick, which usually consists of either (1) a single lath, having a base hollowed out and covered with leather, or (2) wooden tongs made of two laths.

Planting Dibbles

Devices used to set sweet potato slips and vine cuttings. In setting out potatoes, the farmer uses either…

A planting-board

Planting-board

A planting-board

A man walking over a field and sowing seeds.

Sower

A man walking over a field and sowing seeds.

A man spreading seeds.

Sower

A man spreading seeds.