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plan shown in fig. 5 will be found very convenient. The distance 

 across the field is 220 yards. This is the least length of hurdles 

 that can be used. But if the field is divided off into strips across, 

 the whole of the hurdles must be moved each time, and if the field 



Fig. 4. HURDLE. 



is divided into eight strips, there will be seven removals of every 

 hurdle, or the whole length of netting. In the plan here shown, 

 only half this work is necessary, and a field may be divided into 

 eight sections by moving half the hurdles seven times. For in- 

 stance, plot 1 is fed by placing the ^ 

 hurdles from a to b, and from c to d. 

 Plot number 2 is fed by moving the 

 line from e, d to b, e. The next setting 

 of the hurdles is from e to/, the next 

 from b to g, the next from h to i, the 

 next from b to k, the next, and last, 

 from I to m. There will be eight 

 settings of 110 yards each, instead of 

 seven of 220 yards each, which would 

 be necessary should the field be fed off 

 in the usual manner of strips across it. 



In place of these hurdles, netting of cocoa-nut fiber or hempen 

 cord is often used. This is supported by stakes driven into the 

 ground and hooks, (see fig. 6). Netting of this kind is made in 



Fig. 5. PLAN FOB SETTING 

 HTTRDLES. 



