| Show MISTAKES IN THE ORCHARD 4 grower growers having adobe soil solis should also resort to the planting of cover crops about as many mistakes are mad la in tb th P irrigation of orchards as any chirr ale of which we have knowl edge it Is often the case that low furrows and cud a large head of wa let ter are slapped on and the result la to a flooding of ot the whole surface when dry enough to work the adobe eoll soil has run together and the surface la Is so hard that it Is impossible to culta avato 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 baring haying heavy adobe soils should also resort to the planting of cover crops to improve the texture they could Kra gradually dually be brought into such friable condition that they could be more easily bandied handled after irrigation growers as a rule pay the little attention to the subsoil sub soil boll too often the rule followed Is if dust can be kicked up on the surface it Is time to irrigate the Appe appearance urance of the tree indicates 1 to a great extent its needs but after all it Is an examination of the subsoil which most surely deter determine minei whether the orchard needs water or not As a general rule the more inore sandy the soil the greater should be the number of ditches aia the shorter the run in both times and distance the longer the arches the large the head bead the stiffer the soli soil th the fewer and deeper the ditches the longer the run in time and distance the smaller the head and these rules hold fairly good |
