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inches apart each way, with an interval of eighteen inches 

 between each pair of rows. It takes 100,000 plants to 

 set an acre, as compared with 5000 required under matted 

 row training in the northeastern states, and 3500 on the 

 North Pacific coast. Most southern California straw- 

 berries, however, are set in single rows eighteen to twenty 

 inches apart, the plants six to ten inches apart in the row. 

 Under hill training in the Hood River Valley, Oregon, 

 the rows are spaced two and one-half to three feet apart 

 and the plants twelve to fifteen inches apart in the row. 

 In the Puget Sound region, Magoon is set three and one- 

 half feet to four feet apart each way and kept in hills. 

 The double row is used considerably in the irrigated dis- 

 tricts of the northwestern states. The plants are set 

 eighteen inches apart each way and kept in hills, with 

 thirty inches between each pair of rows. 



MARKING OUT THE LAND 



It is important to have the rows straight, wholly aside 

 from their appearance. The land is then uniformly 

 occupied, and tillage implements can be run very close 

 to the plants, thus saving much hand hoeing. 



The simplest method of marking out is with a garden 

 line. This is most useful in the home garden, and when 

 plants are trained in hills. Stretch it and set a row of 

 plants a few inches to one side. In larger operations, a 

 check line may be made of number sixteen wire, well 

 annealed, with a mark or button every two feet, or what- 

 ever may be the distance desired between plants. 

 When laying off large fields into rows at least thirty 

 inches apart, some are satisfied with the results secured 

 with a light plow, or single shovel. Stakes set at the end 



