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Show Hillside Orchards. Tho orchard on tho hillsldo should not bo handled as an orchard on tho plain. Tho lovol orchard can bo cu! tlvatod whenever cultivation is neocs-sary neocs-sary without dotrlment to tho soil, but on tha hillsldo it Is always necessary to take Into consideration the possl-blllty possl-blllty of washing by heavy rains. Wbllo it Is necessary to cultivate tho lovol orchard to get tho best results, Uio hilly orchard must not bo cultivated culti-vated moro than enough to permit ot tho Bowing of cowpcas, clovor, vetches or something elso for a cowr crop. This cultlavtlon should bo dono in tha dry tlmo of summer when thero Is lit. tlo llkollhood of rain. It tho Bcod, Is sown at onco thoro will bo enough molsturo in most soils to germlnato It, and by tho tlmo the fall rains come, tho crop will havo covorod tho ground with a rich verdure, and tho soil wl I bo full of roots which will act ns kiI' binders. As wo travol about tho country coun-try wo obsorvo horn and thoro hillsldo hill-sldo orchards whoro cultivation ha boon attempted. Tho result is thai many ot theso hillsides aro seamed with dcop gullies nnd the rich surfaco soil has boon washod nway, leaving only tho sub-soil, which Is often don-clont don-clont In fortuity and humus. |
