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 . before rising again to continue itscourse down the furrow. It is the experience of some growers thatthe water has taken five or six days to reach the lower end of thefurrows, a distance which would have been covered in twenty-fourhours if the subsoiler had not intervened. This has been shown toresult in much water for the subsoil and a notable invigoration of treeswhich had been famishing, although shallow-furrow
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 . before rising again to continue itscourse down the furrow. It is the experience of some growers thatthe water has taken five or six days to reach the lower end of thefurrows, a distance which would have been covered in twenty-fourhours if the subsoiler had not intervened. This has been shown toresult in much water for the subsoil and a notable invigoration of treeswhich had been famishing, although shallow-furrow irrigation hadproceeded regularly. CONDITIONS FOR DEEP FlRROW I XC, 199 Recent changes in the furrow method at Riverside, CaHfornia, aredescribed by Mr. J. TT. Reed as follows: The handling of the water in the orchard has materially changed in re-cent years. Instead of flooding up, basining, or using shallow furrows, deepfurrows, from 3 to 5 feet apart, are most generally used. In heavy adobesoils more furrows are used than in the more porous granite soils. Themost usual length of furrows is 40 rods. Every precaution is taken to liavethe surface wetted as little as fbkiMtSMi-- Irrigation of fruit trees by large furrows between rows. The amount of water run at a time is materially lessened. Fomerlythe common practice was to run 3 inches per acre for twenty-four hourseach thirty days. Now, 2 inches continuous run for seventy-two hours isfound to serve a much better purpose, except on loose soils. The generalpractice in the valley is to irrigate once each thirty days. A few of the mostcareful orchardists had found that by intelligent and thorough manipulationof the soil they obtained as favorable results from the application of waterevery sixty days or more, using the same amount as they formerly did atintervals of half that time. The writer has watched with much interest aneight-year-old orchard that during the three years preceding the present re-ceived in all but te
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