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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 otf before the digging of the 



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Fig. 17.— a load ..f „,,r-.>rN ir 

 of waloi, uiiicli iii:=ui 



ic setting gang. The barrels are half full 

 * iiig at the hole in 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 follo\\ang: The setting gang consists of from six to ten 



