Show BEST LOCATION FOR ORCHARD plowing and cultivation Is difficult on hillsides Hill sides or tops northern slope favored while hillsides hill sides and hilltops are favorable sites for orchards of peach plum pear or tipple apple or indeed for any of the tree fruits there are some objections it Is more difficult to plow and cultivate orchards on steep hill sides bides more difficult to spray more difficult to handle the fruit when picked the advantages of hillside or hilltop orchards are that they are less often injured by late spring frosts and the trees not liable to have wet feet which Is a fatal condition in any orchard it if the hillside ha has s a northern slope it will III be an advantage for the blossoms will be retarded about ten days over trees grown on the eastern or southern slope |