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attraction between the top and subsoil is broken. If there is a largo 

 amonnt of material to be turned under, it should be thoroughly disked 

 before plo\ving. 



If the season is very dry, and there is a large crop on the trees, it 

 may be advisable to omit the cover crop for a season, so that the trees 

 may have all the available moisture. 



TNTERPLANTED CROPS 



Where the land is fertile, intercropping the young orchard is per- 

 missible for the first year or two ; but it is not advisable where the 

 soil is light and lacking in fertility. The practice of intercropping is 

 of no advantage to a properly managed peach orchard, but no serious 

 injury will result to the trees if a suitable crop is selected and the 

 interests of the trees always observed. Generally, it will prove more 

 profitable in the end to use a system of clean tillage and cover crops. 



Fig. -(). VoiiiiK orcliuni iiilcrphiiitcd with corn. This pnictice is not advisalilc, as tlio corn 



sliades tlie trees too much. 



The interplanted crop should be one which requires the same tillage 

 as the pcaoh, and one that should be tilled about the same length of 

 time. 



The grower should undcrsjand llial in using an intc'rci(i|), a systcp^ 

 of double cropping the land is being employed, and that more fertility 

 should be .supplied to tlx' incs. IJy no means should there bo an inter- 

 planted crop after the second or tliiiil yen-. Tlic inti'r])lantod crop 

 should not be closer than 5 or 6 feet to the trees. 



Corn, which is sometimes grown as an intercrop during the first 

 and second years, is very olijoctioimblo on liglit l;inds. sinoo it makes 



