. Cost of production of apples in the Payette Valley, Idaho : a detailed study of the current cost factors involved in the maintenance of orchards and the handling of the crop on 38 representative bearing orchards, Payette district in western Idaho. Apples. 20 BULLETIN 636, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. orchardists may follow this with some other cultivation tool, such as the spring or spike tooth harrow. Following this, however, there is no further treatment of the soil aside from the rilling for irrigation. A few men plow under their mulch crops as an annual practice, but most of them lea
. Cost of production of apples in the Payette Valley, Idaho : a detailed study of the current cost factors involved in the maintenance of orchards and the handling of the crop on 38 representative bearing orchards, Payette district in western Idaho. Apples. 20 BULLETIN 636, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. orchardists may follow this with some other cultivation tool, such as the spring or spike tooth harrow. Following this, however, there is no further treatment of the soil aside from the rilling for irrigation. A few men plow under their mulch crops as an annual practice, but most of them leave them in for several years, although the growers say it is the intention to turn under and resow the mulch crop at intervals of from three to four years. The kinds of mulch crops used vary somewhat from those in other regions. Alfalfa seems to be the most popular and is used largely for pasture. There are many orchards in bluegrass, which also is. Fig. 8.—A large packing shed of a fruit grower near Boise. used as a pasture. This has been down in some cases 10 or 12 years. The older orchards, which show the greatest amount of neglect, are the ones which are in mulch crops, or, more properly speaking, which have been in sod for a number of years. Such an orchard really can not be said to be under the mulch-crop system. These mulch-crop orchards are often irrigated by means of flood- ing, although about half are irrigated by means of rills. Generally the pastured orchards are flooded, while the better-cared-for orchards are rilled. It is found that 7 of the 22 men who use some form of mulch crop have their orchards in clover, and 9 have them in alfalfa. Four pasture their orchards in addition to taking the hay off, while seven make a practice of pasturing the orchard and not taking off any hay. There is a net credit of $ per acre for hay and pasture, or a credit per box of , for the 22 growers who use some kind of mulch crop. (See Table IX.). Please note that these i
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