Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 34.—Clean cultivation in an old roimvaTrrl orchard. With most men and under mostconditions cultivation will give the best results. Sod Culture.—For sod culture the principal argumentsadvanced are: 1. It is not so expensive a method of caring for the soil. Thisis certainly correct, as the only expense is the cutting of thegrass in the orchard once or twice a year (Fig. 35). But unlessit can be shown that with this less expense the grower gets thesame or nearly the same net returns this is not a very strongargument. 2. T
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 34.—Clean cultivation in an old roimvaTrrl orchard. With most men and under mostconditions cultivation will give the best results. Sod Culture.—For sod culture the principal argumentsadvanced are: 1. It is not so expensive a method of caring for the soil. Thisis certainly correct, as the only expense is the cutting of thegrass in the orchard once or twice a year (Fig. 35). But unlessit can be shown that with this less expense the grower gets thesame or nearly the same net returns this is not a very strongargument. 2. The fruit will keep longer. This would apply to applesand pears in particular, and is probably also true. The fruit SOD CULTURE 79 is usually smaller than that grown under cultivation, whichmeans a more solid flesh that naturally does not break down sosoon. While keeping quality is not so important as it was whenstorage facilities were poorer, still it is certainly worthconsidering. 3. The fruit is more highly colored. Probably this will holdgood as a general rul
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