The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . editches are torn up during the season of cultivation and have to be renewedevery j^ear. I use a level set on a frame feet long and about feet high (oneleg longer than the other) to make any grade desired. Then I drag its lengthon the ground after getting the level, and can mark the line of ditch nearlyhalf as fast as a man can walk. During the last ten years I have used many thousand feet of pipe in irr
The California fruits and how to grow them; a manual of methods which have yielded greatest success, with the lists of varieties best adapted to the different districts of the state . editches are torn up during the season of cultivation and have to be renewedevery j^ear. I use a level set on a frame feet long and about feet high (oneleg longer than the other) to make any grade desired. Then I drag its lengthon the ground after getting the level, and can mark the line of ditch nearlyhalf as fast as a man can walk. During the last ten years I have used many thousand feet of pipe in irri-gating, but have found it too expensive to be practicable, and it frequentlygets clogged, causing much trouble. The zigzag method of taking the waterdovvn liills on the dry ridges, distributing to right and left, picking it upagain in zigzag ditches at the end of the rows or system, to be used again 98 CALIFORNIA FRlITS : HOW TO GROW THEM on lower ground, brings into use tlic largest (|uatitity where it is most neededand utilizes it all without waste. Irrigating by Small Furrows.—It has already been suggestedthat recently the small furrow method of irrigation is undergoing. Newer system of furrow irrigation at Riverside, Cal. certain modifications. The occasion for the change is that in certainof the heavier soils, particularly, the use of water in many shallowfurrows followed by cultivation results in the formation of a compactlayer, and this prevents the percolation of the water into the discovery led many Southern growers to resort to fewer anddeeper furrows, and to new devices to enable the tree to get the benefitof the water. There has been wide use of the subsoil plow, with awedge-shaped foot attached to a slim standard rising to the ordinarybeam. The standard opposes its thin edge to the soil so as to cleave itwith the least difficulty, and the foot, passing through or beneath thehardpan, lifts and breaks it. The result of the subsoiling is to opena way
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