Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 87 



indicate the places for the trees in the first row 

 or base line. 



We are now ready to lay off the second row. 

 Having our base line established, we shall now 

 use both wires and the third man, who will take 

 one end of both wires and pass the rings over 

 his staff, the other men will stand each at a 

 peg established in the other row, retaining one 

 end of a wire, and holding it in place by the 

 ring which passed over their staff. The third 

 man now moves in a direction that will stretch 

 both wires and when they are tight he places 

 a peg at the place marked by his staff; this indi- 

 cates the first tree in the second row. If the 

 ground is steep and the third man is on the up- 

 per side of the hill, he should allow the rings 

 to come nearly or quite to the ground on his 

 staff, while the men who are at the pe^ estab- 

 lished in the base line, should slip their rings 

 up on their staff far enough to approach as 

 nearly as possible a level. If the man start- 

 ing the new row is down hill from those on 

 the base line, he should slip his rings^ — ^and they 

 should be fastened together — ^up while the men 

 in the other row should lower theirs, the nearer 

 the wire is kept on a level the truer or more 

 exact will be the rows. 



After tihe jSrst tree in the second row is 



