Show BAD EFFECTS OF irrigation cultivation la Is important feature to bo be considered water does doca not improve fruit quality unless the trees have been vigorously pruned irrigation has a tendency to pr produce aduce excessive wood growth even on trees heavily loaded with fruit and in making our trips among the orchards we seo see this tendency cropping out at every place we visit there are usually fewer culls on irrigated trees than aro are found in a dry orchard irrigation tends to keep both wood and foliage more active into the fall and may send bond the trees into winter so BO unripe as aa to be wholly unfit to withstand the ordeal which this climate places upon every unprotected protected thing in this arid country says the denver field and farm the use of excessive amount of cold water in the irrigation of pear trees on adobe or sticky dicky soils colls does not increase the size or quality of the fruit and the result on the trees may be detrimental M rather than beneficial irrigation can not be made to make up tor for a poor quality of soil coll cultivation la Is a more important feature to be considered in connection with irrigation which at best merely supplement 9 good tillage |