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was no small task when you take [not legible] consideration the character of the ground. Giving to the fact that these young plants would require constant care and attention during the heated [not legible] it was necessary to set them out where they could be irrigated by the pumping plant used for furnishing with the school. Thus they had to be set out in the mesa, but as they would not [not legible] in gravel and said we took out our picks, [not legible] hoes and shovels and for five long weeks [not legible] and shovels until we had trenches 4 feet deep by 4 feet wide and long enough to contain all our trees set 16 feet apart. These trenches were filled by soil hauled from the bottom mixed with [not legible] fertilizers and
