LAYING OUT A YARD. 



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is ready. It is a good plan to have a couple of boys 

 standing at about equal distances across the hop yard 

 with flag stakes so that the driver, when standing on 

 the marker, can look between the horses' heads and see 

 the stakes. By so doing, he can make two very straight 

 marks and also get over the ground very rapidly. The 



FIG. 31. TRAINING HOPS IN KENT. 



land should be marked both ways, but never with a 

 plow, or one row will be narrow and one wide." 



If poles are used, one or two poles are inserted at 



each hill ; the single pole is now most common in New 



York, but two poles per hill are much used abroad, 



leaning outward from each other so the hops will not 



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