FRUIT GROWING ON THE TRUCKEE-CARSON PROJECT. 



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be the rule. Suitable crops to grow between the rows of trees are 

 small fruits or garden vegetables. 



To keep the ground well fertilized and the trees growing rapidly, 

 barnyard manure may be applied around the trees during the winter 

 and disked under in early spring, or winter vetch may be seeded late 

 in September, to be plowed under the following May. The vetch 



Fig. 5. — An unpruned pear tree. When the trees are not properly trained the lops are 

 liable to be too high, making spraying and fruit picking very difficult. 



adds a large quantity of organic matter to the soil, which is needed 

 by most of the desert soils of the project. 



IRKIGATION.i 



Orchards are usually irrigated by furrows running parallel to the 

 tree rows. Sufficient water should be given to keep the trees grow- 



1 For more complete information, see U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' 

 Bulletin 404, entitled " Irrigation of orchards," 1910. 

 [Cir. 118.] 



