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at the same angle as in the other cases. The support- 

 ing wires are re-inforced at the anchorages by six- 

 strand, five-eighths-inch wire cables, spliced around 

 the head of the outside anchor poles and running to the 

 anchors, together with the supporting wire. 



The trellis wires that run to poles are re-inforced 

 by a No. 4 wire, joined to the poles as above, and run- 

 ning with the trellis wire to their anchorages. The 

 alternate trellis wires above referred to as not having 

 any poles, have no re-inforcement at their anchorages. 

 All anchors are 6x6 redwood, are four feet long and 

 are buried five feet in the ground (four feet deep we be- 

 lieve to be ample). The trellis should be erected 

 in blocks of not to exceed 50 acres, and no 

 stretch of wire should exceed 1,500 feet. It is 

 even preferable to lessen this distance, and that 

 anchorages be not over 1,000 to 1,100 feet 

 apart, in large yards, so that they are in squares of 25 

 acres. This caution is given because experience has 

 shown that where, from any cause or accident, the trel- 

 lis poles collapse, or main wires break, the entire block 

 within such anchorage is almost certain to go down. 

 Thus it will be seen that the smaller the blocks, the 

 greater the security; also the shorter the stretches of 

 wire, the less the weight, and therefore the less liability 

 to accident. 



(8) Stringing begins about April i. The method 

 employed here is to tie three strings at the overhead 

 trellis w-ire. The middle string is run perpendicularly 

 from hill to wire, while the two outside strings run 

 from hill to points about 20 inches on either side of 

 the middle string. The strings are tied to the trellis 

 wire first, and then all three are tied to a loop, in a 

 wire stake about 15 inches long, which is shoved in the 

 hill alongside the root. 



(g) Training About May 10, when the new 

 hop vines are about two feet long, so that selection of 



