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Stock Distribution Practices at the Mt. Shasta Nursery

When seedlings are lifted at the Mt. Shasta Nursery, they are put into 14- by 19- by 29-inch field crates. The crates hold about 2,000 2-0 pine seedlings. When filled, the crates are hauled to the packing shed to be graded and packed. Most seedlings are grouped into one of two grades--large for machine planting and small for hand planting. Grading standards, based mostly on stem diameters, have been established by the Nursery. The packing shed has two grading tables and a packing circle at the end of each table (figs. 1, 2). Overhead elevators transport packing material to the packing circles. The tables are equipped with 30-foot-long rubber belts that have been divided into spaces about 6 inches wide. Each space has a circle with a letter painted on it.


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Author(s): Karl B. Landquist

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 71 (1965)