HOW TO MARK OUT A VINEYARD. 27 



of the reqiiired distances (say four or five feet apart). 

 This is called the marking cord. 



These cords and the little sticks being ready, let the 

 vineyard be laid out, as near as possible, into a square 

 piece of ground. Then starting at the northwest cor- 

 ner, fastening the marking cord there, draw it from 

 thence to the northeast corner, putting the little sticks 

 into the ground at the places marked by muslin in the 

 marking cord ; then fastening the marking cord at the 

 northeast corner, draw it thence to the southeast corner, 

 again putting in the sticks at the proper places, and thus 

 on from the southeast corner to the southwest, and again 

 from southwest to the place of beginning. This marks 

 the outer rows. This work should be carefully done, so 

 as to get the vineyard into regular squares. 



Then draw parallel cords north and south from 

 each of the little sticks on the rows, which stand in 

 the row between the northwest and northeast corner, 

 to the sticks in the row from the southwest to the 

 southeast corner. 



Across these parallel cords, which are fastened, the 

 marking cord, east and west, as in the annexed cut, 

 is stretched crosswise, and held thereby a person at each 

 end, while two or more hands put in the marking sticks 

 at those places where the marking cord crosses each of 

 the pai-allel cords. As soon as the sticks are put in at 



