| Show IRRIGATE PEACHES OFTEN if you want to raise good peaches te be careful how you irrigate the utah agricultural college has just published a bulletin by L I 1 D batchelor elor on the irrigation of peaches that draws sonic some interesting conclusions on the subject of peach orchard irrl ration gation f it was found during a series of experiments peri ments covering three years conducted ducted on oil an orchard of W 0 knudson sons of this city that frequent applications ot of irrigation irr gatlon gation applied to apaches at intervals of seven or eight days produced a more continuous and greater twig growth than the same total amount of water applied with larger applications at intervals of ten to telve belve days the more porous the soil the more frequent the trees should be watered with varying times ot of application of irrigation water the season of most rapid growth is during the season ot of watering with the same total amount of water applied on a gravel loam there is a regular increase in crop production the more frequent the irrigation less water was evidently lost by seepa seepage I 1 c when irrigation water was applied every 7 or 8 days and the trees received no check in growth due to becoming excessively dry from one watering to another the maximum duty of irrigation water applied to peaches on a gravely soil is 31 acre inches any more is wasted sixty two acre inches of water applied to two acres on a gravel loam soil would apparently have produced twice the yield of marketable fruit than it if applied to one acre of trees no amount of water applied earl early sn in the season to a crop of erf peaches 01 gravely soil will compensate tor for thi the lack of water during the month before harvest |
