. Circular. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. FRUIT GROWING ON THE TRUCKEE-CARSON PROJECT. 23 be the rule. Suitable crops to grow between the rows of trees are small fruits or garden vegetables. To keep the ground well fertilized and the trees growing rapidly, barnyard manure may be applied around the trees during the winter and disked under in early spring, or winter vetch may be seeded late in September, to be plowed under the following May. The vetch. Fig. 5.—An unpruned pear tree. When the trees are not properly trained the lops are liable to be too high, making spraying and fruit
. Circular. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. FRUIT GROWING ON THE TRUCKEE-CARSON PROJECT. 23 be the rule. Suitable crops to grow between the rows of trees are small fruits or garden vegetables. To keep the ground well fertilized and the trees growing rapidly, barnyard manure may be applied around the trees during the winter and disked under in early spring, or winter vetch may be seeded late in September, to be plowed under the following May. The vetch. Fig. 5.—An unpruned pear tree. When the trees are not properly trained the lops are liable to be too high, making spraying and fruit picking very difficult. adds a large quantity of organic matter to the soil, which is needed by most of the desert soils of the project. Orchards are usually irrigated by furrows running parallel to the tree rows. Sufficient water should be given to keep the trees grow- 1 For more complete information, see U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin 404, entitled " Irrigation of orchards," 1910. [Cir. 118.]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry
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