Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . the twobeing in a straight line. When, later on, the vine is formed andspread out over the ground, it Avill always be to the left of the plow 38 THE CHAINTRE SYSTEM OF that it has to be turned. The simple laborer will often understandthe economy of this method better than the vine-grower himself. , after a visit made to the chaintres district in 1877, wrote asfollows: These two arms follow tlie dirootion of the row itself, one in front of and one behind thestock, till
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the .. session of the Legislature of the State of California . the twobeing in a straight line. When, later on, the vine is formed andspread out over the ground, it Avill always be to the left of the plow 38 THE CHAINTRE SYSTEM OF that it has to be turned. The simple laborer will often understandthe economy of this method better than the vine-grower himself. , after a visit made to the chaintres district in 1877, wrote asfollows: These two arms follow tlie dirootion of the row itself, one in front of and one behind thestock, till two forming a line slightly ohliquo with reference to the vine row, and they are soplaced that if the plow grazes them, it is not the wrong way of the buds or canes, but on thecontrary, it rubs against them in the direction in which they are growing. Our vine-growers were not slow in perceiving that the formation ofthe branches near the base of the vine rendered it difficult, in thecourse of time, to turn the arms of the vine properly, in order toafford plenty room to the plow and permit a close approach to the. vine rows. In fact, in the first plantations en chaintres the vines areas represented in Figures 3 and 25 ; inflexible through the develop-ment they have been acquiring for twenty or thirty years, and whosetoo numerous arms spreading over such a large space necessitated theassistance of several men to throw them back on the neighboringchaintre. This originated the idea of forming the head with a single PRUNING AND CONDUCTING THE VINE. 39 stem about three feet from the ground, and giving a new direction tothe vine branches. When we say abojit three feet from the ground, wemean about three feet from the base of the stock ; this stock lies onthe ground just the same. It is, therefore, not a matter of elevationabove the ground, as many people think, and as is stated by somewriters, but it is about three feet along the stock where the first cane,and not the first arm branch
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