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Show Maximum Amount Of Irrigation Water Found It you want to raise good peaches, bo careful how you Irrlgnte. The U. A. has Just published n bulletin by I.. D. Ilatcholor on the Irrigation nf peaches that draw sonic Interesting Interest-ing conclusions on thc subject of. peach orchard Irrigation. It was found, during a series of expeilmcnts covering three years, conducted on nn orchard of W. O. Knudson & Sons, Ilrlgham, thnt frequent fre-quent applications or Irrigation op-Piled op-Piled to Peaches at intervals of Bev-on Bev-on or eight davs produced a more continuous nnd greater twig growth than the same total amount of water applied with larg?r applications nt Intervals of ton to twelvo days. The more porous tho soil, tho moro frequent fre-quent the trees should bo wntered. With varying times of application of irrigation water the season of most rapid growth Is during tho season of watering. With tho same total amount of water wa-ter applied on a gravel loam there is a regulnr Increase in crop production tho moro frequent tho Irrigation. t.ess water was evidently tost by seepage when Irrigation water was applied every seven or eight days and the trees received no check In their growth duo to becoming excessively dry from one watering to another. The maximum duty of lrrlgntlon water applied to peaches on a gravely noil is 31 acre Inches. Any more Is wasted. Sixty-two acre lnclies of water wa-ter applied to two acres on n gravel loam soil would apparently have produced pro-duced twice the yield of marketable fruit than If applied to ono aero of trees. No nmount of wotr applied early In the season to a crop of peaches on gravely soil will compensate tor, the lack of water during tho month bo-fore bo-fore harvest. |