Show SCIENTIFIC ARID LAND WITHOUT Dry Horticulture on East Millard County Bench Land will be ii Ray and we are have 17 acres out near Whiskey Creek planted with apple and peach trees last spring 95 per cent of which are growing and doing well without and probably all would have done so had it not been for rabbits getting at the trees before the rabbit proof fence was put The ground was plowed 10 inches deep and Double furrows were plowed where the trees were to be and water run through the Holes were dug 18 inches deep into which the trees were set and the holes filled and thus left irrigation after planting but the ground thoroughly cultivated to conserve the and after this dry season the soil is found to be quite a few inches below the Grapes and alfalfa planted last spring are also doing well without The experiment by this company has developed one important point that is worth and that that deep plowing and frequent surface cultivation of these bench lands is better than 15 Tons of Water Per Government experts have ascertained that a matured apple tree requires 15 tons of water An average of 12 inches on a radius of 60 feet square will amount to about three times that amount of so that trees growing 30 feet with the soil thoroughly cultivated will have ample moisture from that amount of A as we remember his' entered into the dry land horticulture business in Colorado some years in a district where the precipitation averages only 12 inches per and has made a grand success of He reports having plowed his ground deep the first year and left it open through the The following summer he kept up a thorough surface cultivation to conserve the moisture and allowing nothing to grow to draw the Then in the fall he plowed deep furrows where ne wanted to plant trees and dug the holes for them leaving them open during the and then planted his trees the following setting them down This man has now hundreds of acres of bench producing thousands of dollars worth of the choicest and best marketable Hundreds of acres of bench land has been cleared this summer by Fillmore and Holden some of which will be prepared for orchard and by doing it right success is sure to Fillmore Progress |