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THE HOP. 



FIG. 30. A YAKD ON THE SHORT POLE SYSTEM. 



At Watson ville, Santa Cruz Co., Cal. Poles are 2x3 inches x 9 feet long, of split 

 redwood, set 2 f t. in ground, 8 ft. apart square No wire is used, only Mo 18 

 cotton twine, which is fastened to pole 6 ft. from ground. The string is run 

 in squares, and two vines are left to the hill. Vines are trained on poles up 

 to the strings. Mr. Morse allows one male vine to every 35 female vines; 

 males are not pruned and are given 15 ft. poles to climb. They consequently 

 grow very bushy, and, as they climb to the tops of the high poles set for them, 

 a good distribution of pollen is secured. This short-pole system is not to be 

 confused with either the trellis system of overhead wires, or the long-pole 

 method used in Washington, New York and England. 



