. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. h hand tools such as grubbing hoes or mat-tocks. After plowing, the disk harrow or cutaway harrow (Figs. 234and 235) should be used to crumble the soil and prevent loss ofmoisture. Some such implement should be used several times. Itwill prevent the baking of soil and will keep down the growth of THE YEARS CULTIVATION OE ORCHARDS 331 weeds. Other tillage implements, such as the acme
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. h hand tools such as grubbing hoes or mat-tocks. After plowing, the disk harrow or cutaway harrow (Figs. 234and 235) should be used to crumble the soil and prevent loss ofmoisture. Some such implement should be used several times. Itwill prevent the baking of soil and will keep down the growth of THE YEARS CULTIVATION OE ORCHARDS 331 weeds. Other tillage implements, such as the acme spike-toothand spring tooth harrows may be used at short intervals after thefirst plowing and disking ( and 237). By midsummer it is usually bestto stop tillage. This will allow thetrees to stop growing and ripentheir wood and form the budscales for winter protection. Theyare then less likely to be injuredby winter freezing. A part of the annual tillageshould include the sowing of thewinter cover crop at the timewhen the cultivation ceases. Theseed may be sown just before orjust after the last cultivation. A good cover crop mixture is onebushel of rye, one peck of winter vetch, and one-half peck of. Fig. 234.—A common disk harrow maybe attached to the ends of an extensionbar to cultivate under orchard trees.(New Jersey Station.)
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