Material: Three dozen stakes a foot and a half long, 

 one dozen 3 feet long, all sharpened at one end, a hammer, 

 plenty of string, three rings and a tape line. 



Method: See Bailey's "Principles of Fruit-Growing," 

 page 262. 



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B A A 



FIG. 1 



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FIG. 2 



A. SQUARE METHOD 



Let A BCD represent a square acre bounded by field lines or fences. The 

 problem is to stake this field preparatory to planting an orchard, on the square 

 system, the trees to be thirty feet apart and the outer trees to be fourteen feet 

 from the fence lines. 



The larger stakes are guide stakes. These are to be used only as guides 

 in sighting to test the position of the smaller stakes which are used to show 

 the locations of the trees. The guide stakes are to be placed along the fence 

 lines, fourteen feet apart and just far enough from the fences so that one can 

 walk between them and the fences. 



Place one guide stake near line AD, just 14 feet from point D. Place 

 another near line BC, just 14 feet from point C. 



Place your first tree stake at point D' (See Fig. 1), which is just 14 feet 

 from line DC and 14 feet from line AD. Find this point by measurement. 

 Test its position by sighting between the two guide stakes. Set a tree stake 

 at C", following the same plan. 



Now make a right angle at point D' as follows. Measure 40 feet along 

 line D'C", and fix point M (See Fig. 2). From D', using a tape line, swing a 

 30-foot arc, and from point M swing a 50-foot arc, the two arcs intersecting 



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