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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 



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 in good condition. 



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



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 



