PLANTING AND GROWING 



These should be about six or eight rods apart, 

 and care should be used to avoid setting them 

 where they will interfere with the sighting of 

 the right angle rows. This plan has the great 

 merit of enabling the entire orchard to be set 

 without moving a stake, as no stake stands 

 where a tree Is to be set. If the trees are set 

 exactly where the sight lines cross at right 

 angles and If all rows are an equal distance 

 apart, the rows will be perfectly straight. 



On rough or rolling land this plan does not 

 work well. Here more simple methods, 

 though requiring more time, must be used. 

 Lines drawn with a cord or marked across the 

 field with a corn planter answer well for small 

 areas. Poles of the right length are often used 

 to good advantage. In setting trees after the 

 hexagonal plan an equilateral triangle made 

 of light poles or wire Is probably best, es- 

 pecially on small rough areas, as It Is very 

 accurate, simple, and quite rapid. Some men 

 prefer to make measurements and set a stake 

 at every point where a tree Is to be placed. In 

 these cases a simple device locates the original 

 stakes after the hole has been dug. A light 

 board about six feet long with a notch in the 

 center and holes with pegs In them at each end 

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