ORCHARD PLANTING •* 63 



the Other trees, a complete square. With this new- 

 peg as a point of departure the poles are moved up 

 one space. The end of one pole rests on the peg, 

 the end of the other pole on the third tree in the 

 base line, and where the tips of the poles meet, a peg 

 is set representing the third tree in the second row. 



Two men working together with these poles can 

 set out the pegs for each succeeding row as fast as 

 they can walk across the field, and with a little time 

 given to correcting irre<;^u\ir'ties, these rows can be 

 made very straight, „ ^ n . ,o r- . . „ 



and the work will 

 check up with sur- 

 prising accuracy at 

 the finish. Of course, 

 this method does not 

 work so well on un- 

 even land, but on such 

 land the greatest ac- 

 curacy is not expected 

 anyway. 



It is common prac- 

 tice in many places to • 

 lay off the field with g- f*-£--^^- 



a plow and a steady method of laying off orchard 

 team of horses or a 



good mule. Stakes are set at the ends and across 

 the middle of the field by which the driver of the 

 horses or the mule is able to sight. He then plows 

 furrows lengthwise of the field representing the new 

 rows. Stakes are then set crosswise of the field, 

 enabling the planters to sight out the rows at right 

 angles to the furrows. Trees are put in some- 

 times without the preliminary work of setting 

 stakes. This method is not as accurate as the 

 former, but is a little cheaper and more rapid. 



