408 HOPS.

by which simple contrivance the time and labor of measuring are saved.

The construction of the“ HoRsEs”’‘is equally simple: being merely that of set- ting up strong stakes or poles, about. six feet asunder, and running a line of. slender poles, horizontally, along them, and at four feet and a half from the ground. The stakes or upright poles.are let into the ground, as hop poles; and each has an artificial fork, or crutch, near the top, for the hori- zontal poles to rest on. This is given, by inserting a stout wooden pin, so as to form an acute angle with the top of the pole, or standard; whose whole length is six or seven feet.

In each interspace, between the stakes, a picking basket is placed; and to each basket is allowed two or more pickers;.as a wo- man and her children, or two indifferent persons, who agree to pick together. Six or eight: loaded poles being placed at one end of the horse, the pickers take them, one by one, and recline them over the bas- ket; which is set towards the other end of the horse; the pickers(if two) standing one on either side of it.