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two rows west. Return with lister north on next row, move flags and 

 return south on third row, and so on until block is tiuished. Take the 

 subsoil plow and four good horses and follow each furrow, sinking it 

 as deeply as possible. 



Js^ow take the planting wire with the men and boys. Begin at a 

 point 15 feet south of flag 1 (which will be the location of the first tree 

 in first row), stretch the wire south in line with flags 1 and 6, sighting 

 the flags to get wire straight, and stick pins in at each knob on the 

 wire. Move south, sticking pins to end of row, which will be 15 feet 

 north of south line. 



Now move west on south line 300 feet (the length of the wire), and 

 beginning at point 15 north of south line, stick pins on that line north 

 to point 15 feet south of north lino. Return south on row 300 feet 

 farther west in same way, and so on until end of block. Move with 

 wire back to starting point and begin at first pin 15 feet south of flag 

 1, stretch the wire west to first pin in the row 300 feet west and 15 

 feet south of pin in north outside line, and stick pins exactly at each 

 knob. (If the furrows are straight each pin will come in center of fur- 

 row). When pins are set the men will move wire south to next nins 

 and set pins as before, and so on until south line is reached. Then 

 move wire west 300 feet and work north in same manner to north line : 

 then south on next land, and so on until block is finished. 



We now have pins set where each tree will stand, and they should 

 row up perfectly straight in all directions. 



A man will now take one of the planting boards and a sack of 

 pins. Lay the board flat on the ground across the furrow so that the 

 pin which is set where the tree will be shall fit snugly into the notch 

 in the center of the board. He then inserts a pin through each hole 

 in the end of the board and firmly into the ground, raises the board, 

 leaving the three pins sticking in the ground, and passes on to the 

 next pin and does likewise until he has gone over the tract. Follow- 

 ing him comes men with shovels who open up the hole around the cen- 

 ter pin large enough to allow all roots to extend in natural position ; 

 the pin is laid to one side. 



We are now ready for the trees. Take the two tubs made from 

 the oiJ barrel and sei one close to-where the trees are heeled in and 

 fill it well with kerosene emulsion. Place the other in the wagon and 

 fill with thin mud made from rich soil. When the trees are taken from 

 the ground the roots should be dipped in the kerosene emulsion to 

 kill any wooly aphis which may be among the roots, then dipped in the 

 mud and placed in the wagon and covered with a blanket and taken to 



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