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chicken netting, or fence, is used instead. 

 Strong stakes at intervals not to exceed ten 

 feet are used to support the netting. One 

 advantage of wire netting is that if stakes 

 six feet high are used, a forty-two or forty- 

 eight-inch strip of netting may be placed 

 in position; and, if the season or soil is 

 favorable and the peas grow above this, a 

 narrow strip of netting may be added or 

 a string or wire stretched from stake to 

 stake over the row. A well-galvanized 

 netting can be used repeatedly for several 

 years, and will last longer if taken off in 

 the fall and stored. 



String. Another method is to con- 

 struct a support of wire and string, or of 

 string alone. The ingenious grower can 

 construct all sorts of fanciful designs with 

 wire and string on posts set not over ten 

 feet apart. Sometimes a wooden strip is 

 nailed horizontally at the top and bottom, 



