LATINO OUT A YARD. 



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is ready. It is a ^ood plan to have a couple of boys 

 standing at about cc;ual distances across the hop yard 

 with tlag stakes so that tlie (h'iver, when stan(hng on 

 the marker, can look between the horses' heads and see 

 the stakes. By so doinp^, he can make two very straight 

 marks and also get over the ground very rapidly. The 



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Fia. 31. TRAINING HOPS IN KENT. 



land should be marked both ways, but never with a 

 plow, or one row will be narrow and one wide." 



If poles are used, one or two poles are inserted at 



each hill; the single pole is now most common in New 



York, but two poles per hill are much used abroad, 



leaning outward from each other so the hops will not 



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