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with rags at the ends to prevent injuring the trees, 
and fill up the trench at two rounds. Then plow 
the space between the rows. One thing must be very 
carefully figured out the very first thing, if the hex- 
agonal style is used (which I prefer and use), and 
that is, the distances between the rows at right 
angles, and not diagonally from tree to tree, and 
then accurately measured and staked on the outer 
lines. The great Wellhouse orchards, in Kansas, were 
laid out with the plow. J. H. Hale substituted a 
60-cent per day darkey and a mule for a six-dollar 
surveyor and transit, in laying out his rows for 
planting his 600-acre peach orchard in Georgia. 
“Laying out with a line.—For small orchards of an 
acre or two, I have often practiced a method of 
laying out in the hexagonal style, which is very 
quickly and easily done. As many stakes are pro- 
vided as there are trees to be set. <A wire is pre- 
pared of the exact length that the trees are to be 
apart, and a ring or loop twisted in at each end, 
by which to hold it. A base line is established by 
setting stakes just where each tree will be in the first 
row. One person (A) slips a finger through one 
ring, and another (B) takes the other end of the 
wire and runs a small stick through the ring. A 
holds his end exactly at stake 1, and B steps to 
where he supposes the first tree of the second row 
will come, and with the point of his stick marks a 
small segment of a circle on the ground. He remains 
there while A goes to stake 2 and holds his end 
exactly to it. B_ deseribes another are on the 
