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gratification whatever the farm garden must be protected 

 from intruders. One of the chief objections to locating 

 vegetable patches here and there in the best situations for 

 special purposes lies in the trouble of excluding wild 

 marauders of all sizes from a jack-rabbit to a deer and the 

 whole range of domestic invaders from the pasture or 

 corral. This fact alone compels many to forego vegetable 

 planting except in the well-fenced house-yard. It is not 

 difficult to inclose a few square rods with wire netting or 

 with the woven stock fence of wire and driven posts the 

 whole to be rolled up and stored or moved to another in- 

 closure as the progress of the season gives it new uses. 



A home-grown fence is quite possible in California, us- 

 ing for pickets the southern cane or the Asiatic bamboos, 

 both of which grow readily on moist land in this State. 

 Posts may be set a rod apart. With an inexpensive machine 

 the canes may be woven into a web, using six No. 14 wires 

 for the chain. If the canes are cut three and one-half feet 

 long, and the fence posts are four feet above the ground, 

 along the top of them a barbed wire may be stretched, so 

 that when completed one has a chicken or rabbit fence as 

 well as a strong stock fence. This fence is very durable, 

 the cane becoming as hard as bone and never rotting ; rab- 

 bits can not gnaw it, and it will not ignite from burning 

 grass near it as common pine fencing or lath will ; stock 

 can see it and hence will not run against it. It can be 

 made of any height desired, the canes growing as high as 

 12 to 15 feet. It may be taken down, rolled up and moved 

 without injury and at slight expense. 



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Although our foreign-born friends who do most of the 

 market garden work in California retain their native pre- 

 dilection for hand labor and plan their gardens accord- 

 ingly, it is advisable that farm vegetable growers should 

 arrange to use as much horse power as possible. Both for 

 this purpose and to facilitate furrow irrigation or seepage 

 ditch irrigating, if the slope suits it, the garden should be 



