TOBACCO CULTURE IN THE WEST INDIES 23 
ERECTING 
‘The shed may cover a piece of ground of irregular shape 
but the posts must always be placed in straight lines and 
at right angles. 
Start by running a wire parallel with the general di- 
rection of one side of the field from end to end. At one 
end establish a square corner by measuring 80 feet along 
the wire, placing a stake at the finishing point; then from 
the same starting point measure off 60 feet at right angles 
to the wire and place another stake. The distance between 
these two stakes should be exactly 100 feet, if not the 60 
foot stake should be moved to the 100 foot mark without 
varying the 60 foot distance. Then stretch the wire from 
the corner through the 60 foot mark and continue to the 
other side of the field and square that corner in the same 
way. The other two lines may be laid off and the corners 
squared off likewise. Then place posts along the wires all 
around the field exactly 200 inches apart, leaving them sev- 
en feet out of the ground. Next nail the 1144 strips 
on the upper ends of the outer rows of the posts connect- 
ing these one with another. After this stretch wires from 
posts to posts across the field in both directions. Set a 
hard wood stake or ‘‘dead man’’ from 10 to 12 feet outside 
each post and run the wires from the top of the posts down 
around these stakes and back to the top of the post. The 
wires can then be tightened at any timle and as much as 
desired by twisting the two wires between the posts and 
the ‘‘dead men’’. After tightening the wires place the 
posts in the middle of the field exactly where the wires 
eross which will make them stand 200 inches apart each 
way. Staple the wires to the top of the posts with a two 
