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BETTER FRUIT 



November 



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In the Okanogan country the favorite 

 soil buliding cover crops are alfalfa and 

 clover. Thirty orchardists are now try- 

 ing out sweet clover. The best stands 

 of these crops have been secured where 

 the land was first planted in rye, then 

 about the middle of April or just when 

 the rye is in the boot it is turned under, 



and two weeks later the land is har- 

 rowed, the seed sown and then the first 

 irrigation is given. Sometimes alfalfa 

 is sown in the fall with rye, which is 

 cut in the early summer for hay. The 

 best results, however, have not been 

 secured by this method. During the 

 first six or seven years an orchard 

 should never be sown solid to a heavy 

 rooting cover crop; hundreds of or- 



chards in the Okanogan country prove 

 this. A strip at least five feet wide 

 should be kept cultivated on each side 

 of the tree, thus allowing room for the 

 growth of the roots of the young tree. 

 \ heavy sod of alfalfa contains such 

 numerous and strong roots that the 

 young trees are choked when planted 

 diiectly amongst alfalfa. I have in mind 

 the condition of a certain twenty-acre 

 orchard of seven-year-old trees; five 

 years ago ten acres were sown solid to 

 alfalfa and the other ten kept cultivated 

 clean. At the present time the trees in 

 the alfalfa are fully two seasons' growth 

 behind those in the clean cultivated 

 orchard. 



The most successful way of handling 

 the alfalfa cover crop is to use the first 

 three cuttings for hay, leaving the 

 fourth on the ground and disking it in 

 in the spring. WTiere the season is not 

 long enough to produce four crops, the 

 third should be left on the ground as a 

 fertilizer. A point to be remembered is 

 that the cover crop must not be watered 

 too late, as there is great danger of the 

 trees suffering from winter injury by 

 going into the winter in too green a 

 condition. Last spring an orchardist 

 became very irate when he heard me 

 advocating the cover crop system. He 

 said the alfalfa killed his trees. On 

 visiting his orchard I found a ten-acre 

 tract of Jonathans. Seven acres were 

 cultivated clean and three were sown 

 in alfalfa. In the part in alfalfa thirty- 

 eight trees were entirely killed by win- 

 ter injury, while in the clean cultivated 

 part not a single tree was injured. He 

 irrigated the last time in the clean cul- 

 tivated part on the 29th of August, 1913, 

 and the part in alfalfa received its last 

 irrigation on the 23d or September of 

 the same year. Numerous other in- 

 stances have shown that great danger 

 is incurred by the late irrigatian of 

 cover crops. 



In the more sandy soils vetches have 

 proven very satisfactory, but as the 

 prices of this seed have become prohib- 

 itive very little will be used until they 

 are cheaper. One of the greatest prob- 

 lems of Okanogan County is the sandy 

 orchard problem; about 8,000 acres of 



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