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Some Phases of Alfalfa, Etc. 



Continued from page 11 



tirely upon the methods of handling 

 alfalfa in the orchard and will be dis- 

 cussed more fully below. I will simply 

 say here that conservation of moisture 

 is one of the benefits that may be 

 derived from alfalfa in the orchard. 



1 have mentioned some of the reasons 

 why alfalfa should be beneficial to the 

 orchard. This may be just theory. But 

 the proof of the pudding is in the eat- 

 ing. We have plenty of evidence to 

 show that the alfalfa actually does not 

 get results. I might mention the Bar- 

 ney & Williams orchard which has 

 been in alfalfa for about twenty years. 

 This is the oldest alfalfa orchard that 

 I know of and has the largest bearing 

 record of any orchard that I know of. 

 I have the bearing record of this or- 

 chard for the six years from 1907 till 

 1912 inclusive. The average bearing 

 per tree per year for those six years 

 was nineteen boxes per tree per year. 

 Mr. Williams told me since he has har- 

 vested his 1917 crop that these trees 

 still keep up the same performance. I 

 could mention many other instances of 

 beneficial results. In fact the results 

 have been so generally satisfactory that 

 about 75 per cent of our orchards at 

 Wenatchee are now in alfalfa. 



So far I have spoken of alfalfa as a 

 cover and manure crop and of its direct 

 benefit to the orchard. The ideal 

 method for handling alfalfa as a strictly 

 cover and manure crop for the most 

 rapid upbuliding of the soil and for the 



conservation of moisture is to allow 

 the whole crop to fall on the ground 

 and rot. However, there is the other 

 phase to be considered, the matter of 

 providing our own living, as much as 

 possible, on the orchard farms. This 

 is a phase that cannot be overlooked at 

 this time. It is a phase that is in line 

 with the recommendations of the food 

 administration and, further than that, 

 is in line with a policy of permanent 

 thrift. Every orchard farm should have 

 its family cow, a hog or two, chickens 

 and a garden. 



Where there is no shortage of water 

 there is no reason why a crop or two 

 of alfalfa, or even three crops, cannot 

 be taken from the orchard if it is fed 

 on the ranch and the manure put back 

 on the orchard. In this way the feed- 

 ing value as well as the greater part of 

 the fertilizing value can be obtained. If 

 we have to go out and buy feed for our 

 stock and other animals today we are 

 in a bad way. Alfalfa hay is selling for 

 $30 a ton at Wenatchee, and it is the 

 cheapest feed we can buy at that. As 

 I have said the water requirements of 

 alfalfa in the orchard depends largely 

 upon the methods of handling. If your 

 alfalfa is strictly a cover and manure 

 crop and you allow it all to lay on the 

 ground I am satisfied that it does not 

 require any more water than clean cul- 

 tivation, and I earnestly believe that it 

 requires less, although I have no ac- 

 curate to prove this. I am personally 

 unfortunate enough to be Interested in 

 an orchard for which we have to raise 

 water over 200 feet by means of pumps. 



You can readily see that with us con- 

 servation of moisture is a feature. We 

 had the past season in our part of the 

 state the most severe long drouth that 

 we have had in recent years, but our 

 orrchard suffered less from drouth this 

 year than ever because we cut only a 

 portion of the first crop of alfalfa and 

 none after that. It seemed a shame to 

 see that dense mat of alfalfa fall down 

 and rot on the ground, but we could 

 get only a limited amount of water and 

 we did not dare cut the alfalfa and 

 take it off. The alfalfa saved our apple 

 crop. As I see it now, however, we 

 could have installed an additional pump 

 and doubled our water supply and paid 

 for the pump and the extra power with 

 the alfalfa we could have saved, fig- 

 uring it at $30 a ton. We are now nego- 

 tiating for a pump to double our water 

 supply next year. 



We have learned something also this 

 year about handling our water. Up 

 until this year we have used four or 

 five small furrows between the tree 

 rows, but have always experienced con- 

 siderable difficulty in getting our water 

 through these small ditches. This year 

 we made just two large ditches with a 

 turning plow with very much better 

 results. We have always had the best 

 success sowing alfalfa about the middle 

 of August on soil that has been clean 

 cultivated all summer. At that time it 

 is necessary to irrigate it and is some- 

 times necessary to irrigate it once after 

 that. If the soil should get dry at the 

 time the seed is germinating or soon 

 after that you will not have much sue- 



