The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria . / A -^ ri- ^^ ^^ In laying pipe drains, they should be placed well into the subsoil todraw off water freely. It is a good plan to lay them on sand if readilyavailable. Sand makes a good bed for pipes, and they are then not so aptto become displaced as when put on a hard bottom. In laying lo Aug., 191--] Unprofitable Orchards. 509. extreme care must be taken not to ha\e any unevenness between successivepipes to allow dt the collection of sediment in the interior of the pipe drain. Manuring. It is too commonly believed tliat fruit
The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria . / A -^ ri- ^^ ^^ In laying pipe drains, they should be placed well into the subsoil todraw off water freely. It is a good plan to lay them on sand if readilyavailable. Sand makes a good bed for pipes, and they are then not so aptto become displaced as when put on a hard bottom. In laying lo Aug., 191--] Unprofitable Orchards. 509. extreme care must be taken not to ha\e any unevenness between successivepipes to allow dt the collection of sediment in the interior of the pipe drain. Manuring. It is too commonly believed tliat fruit trees tliri\e well in tlie poorest ofsoil. This idea is not correct, for when the trees are called upon to bearheavy crops, they require a liberal supply of the necessary plant-food con-stituents. Soil of poor (]ualitv may certainly be beneficial in bringing trees,into bearing quickly or in checking the over-vigorous growth of somevarieties; but continued cropping will surely soon exhaust the requiredelements of plant-focwl in such soil, so that the tr
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