| Show MISTAKES IN THE ORCHARDS growers having adobe soils should also resort to the planting of cover crops about as many mistakes are made in tha irrigation of orchards as any thing else of which we have knowl edge it Is often the case that ahal low furrows and a large bead of wa ter are slapped on and the result la a flooding of the whole surface when dry enough to work the adobe soil baa run together and the surface la so hard that it Is impossible to culta vate it the grower therefore resorts to frequent watering to keep the orchard going in these soils the water settles slowly and a smaller head run in deeper ditches would prove more satisfactory growers having heavy adobe soils should also resort to the planting of cover crops to improve the texture they could gradually be brought into such friable condition that they could be more easily handled after irrigation grow ers as a rule pay the little attention to the subsoil sub soil too often the rule followed Is it dust can be kicked up on the surface it Is time to irrigate the appearance of the tree indicates to a great extent its needs but after all it Is an examination 0 the sub soil which most surely determines whether the orchard needs water or not As a general rule the more sandy the soil the greater should be the number of ditches and the shorter the run in both times and distance the longer he ditches the larger the head the the soil the fewer and deeper the ditches the longer the run in time and distance the smaller the head and these rules hold fairly good |
