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Modifying the Panama Hand Seeder for Use in the Northeast

Experimental testing of the Panama Hand Seeder for preparing seed spots and dispensing tree seed has revealed certain inadequacies of this tool. These we have corrected by modifying its scarifying point and seed dispensing unit. Because these modifications have greatly increased the utility of this seeder in direct seeding work at the University of Massachusetts, and have stimulated interest elsewhere in the Northeast, they are described here for the benefit of others.


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Author(s): Herschel G. Abbott, Walter H. Davidson

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 59 (1963)