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Title: Apple growing in the Pacific Northwest; a condensation of lectures, experiments and discussions
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Portland Young Men's Christian Association
Subjects: Apples Apples Apples
Publisher: Portland, Or.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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rather thanwait two or three years to prepare the soil. The next thing is to stake out the. field. If the land is roughit is quite difficult to get it exact without surveyors instruments, butone can get very good results in rough ground. First run a line atsome point where you can get as near a level as possible, and thenline right through. I have found it convenient to have all stakes pre-pared. I first split up some stove wood 18 inches long. The stakesneed not be larger than half an inch square. After they have beenpointed a little, mix some lime in water, making a thin white wjish,ihen dip the top end into the whitewash. This makes them easy to see. As a general thing trees are planted too close together. If I Avereplanting an orchard today I would not plant trees nearer than 30 feetapart. Take a soft piece of wire and make it just 60 feet long.Put a mark at the center of the wire. The man at the rear stake,looking at the stake across the field sets tliis SO-foot stake at the mark
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Branch of th-- Winter Banana Apple grown in the Hood River \ alley. Oregon. This apple is at present the most expensive grown, commanding in the East as high as 25 cents apiece. 22 APPLE GROWING IX THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST on the wire, and at 60 feet as he advances. He always lias two stakesto look across, and the tliird stake at the end of the row. The reasonfor two stakes is that on uneven ground the end stake can be seen.When two stakes are used one can go considoral)!* distance and not bemuch out of line. Sighting across the field, next establish a line atright angles with the first. For the benefit of those who do not knowexactly how to do that, I will state a very simple method. Go out sixfeet on one of these lines and eight feet the other way and it will beexactly 10 feet across that angle. Then you can be sure you have anexact right angle every time. Setting the Trees. After the land is staked make a planting board about four feetlong with a notch in each end, and one in the cent

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