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Show Orchard Irrigation Is Used by Ohio Growers Irrigation of orchards Is the new thing In Ohio agriculture. Prompted by losses Incurred In the drought of three years ago, Ohio fruit growers grow-ers In Increasing numhers resort to canvas hose and pipe line Irrigation Irri-gation to bring their crops through dry periods. C. E. Dutton, manager of the Ohio Orchard company at Milford Center, In keeping records of costs and profits of the Irrigated sections and non-irrigated sections of his orchard In 1932, found the total cost of Irrigating Rome Beauty trees amounted to $11.30 an acre. Yield of fruit was Increased 25 per cent. Irrigated apples cost less to produce than the non-Irrigated fruit, owing to the Increased yields. Increased value of the apples on the Irrigated section, owing both to Increased yields and Improved quality, was 5CG.S0 an acre. Water Is being distributed In the Irrigated orchards through "ooze" type of canvas hose. The water oozes through the side walls of the hose lines distributed among the trees. No nozzle sprinklers are used. In dry seasons irrigation Is continued con-tinued through until the fruit ripens. ri-pens. From two to three acre-Inches acre-Inches of water are applied each time. |
