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THE HOP. 



FIG. 30. A YARD ON THE SHORT POLE SYSTEM. 



At Watsonville, Santa Cruz Co., Cal. Poles are 2x3 inches x 9 feet loner, of split 

 ledwoofl. set 2 ft. in ground, 8 ft. ai)arr .sf|naie No wire is nsed, only No 18 

 cotton twine, whioh is fastened to |.o1p 6 fr. from •.-ronnd. The string Is run 

 in squares, and two vines are left to the lull. Vines are trained on poles up 

 to the strings. Mr. Morse allows one male vine To everv 35 female vines; 

 males are not pruned and are tnven 15 ft. poles to climb. They consequently 

 grow very tuishy, and. as they climb to the to|)s of the high poles set for tliem, 

 a good disirjiiutioii of i)ollen is secnrcd. This shoit-p<ile system is not to be 

 coiifn-ed with either the trellis system of overhead wires, or the long-pole 

 method used in Washington, New York and England. 



