52 ESTABLISHING THE ORCHARD 



are heeled in. A board ten or twelve inches wide will answer 



the purpose. 



Working Out the Plan. In actual orchard operations the 

 entire field is usually not staked off before the digging of the 



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FIG 17 -A load of nursery trees ready for the setting gang. The barrels are half full 

 of water, which insures the trees arriving at the hole m good condition. 



FIG. 18. Gang of men setting trees. The men work in pairs and the foreman distributes 



the trees. 



holes and setting of the trees is begun. A method which the 

 writer has used on a fairly large orchard with entire satisfaction 

 is the following: The setting gang consists of from six to ten 



