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2, red clover in strips for seed or for- 

 age. 3, white clover in strips for 

 seed. 4, asparagus. 5, rhubarb. 6, 

 nursery stock. 7, small fruits, straw- 

 berry, loganberry-dewberry, raspberry 

 and blackberry, currants and gooseber- 

 ries, grapes. B. Annual crops: 1, 

 vegetables, potatoes and tomatoes, can- 

 taloupes and watermelons, cabbage and 

 cauliflower, onions and celery, pump- 

 kins and squash, sugar beets and man- 

 gels, carrots and sweet corn, garden 

 peas and beans for seed, lettuce and 

 spinach, vegetable seed crops. 2, field 

 crops, corn and fetereta, wheat hay, 

 oat hay, pea and oat hay, barley, oats 

 and peas for feed for hogs, field peas 

 for seed. Crops that may be grown 

 with profit in the bearing orchard: 1, 

 alfalfa for hay or hog pasture. 2, 

 clover for hay or hog pasture. 3, rape 

 for hog pasture. 4, vetch for hog pas- 

 ture or seed. The long list of adaptable 

 inter-crops makes it possible for the 

 orchardist to choose very much to his 

 liking and at the same time produce a 

 profitable crop. The greatest care must 

 be exercised in getting one suitable to 

 the climate, markets, needs of the soil 

 and adaptability of the orchardist. It 

 is not a wise policy to grow a great 

 many kinds of inter-crops nor to con- 

 fine yourself to a single crop. 



Inter-Crop Combinations 



If the orchartlist can care for a few 

 hogs or dairy cows then alfalfa or 

 clover, with roots or mangels and corn, 

 will make an extra fine combination. 

 Where small fruits are used it is far 

 better to have a succession of berries 

 to harvest than a lot of one kind for a 

 short period of time. Loganberries 

 and dewberries, in conjunction with 

 red raspberries and strawberries, make 

 an excellent small-fruit combination. 

 Small fruits and root crops do not work 

 well together where the root crop needs 

 must be hand thinned. Where large 

 orchard areas must be handled and 

 Canadian peas, oats, wheat, alfalfa and 

 corn can be grown they make an excel- 

 lent farm combination. The land for 

 wheat can be prepared in the fall and 

 the wheat sown. Early in the spring 

 the peas and oats and peas for seed can 

 be sown. The alfalfa must then be 

 disked and the corn land prepared and 

 planted. After the corn is planted, the 

 wheat, pea or oat land and pea land, in 

 addition to the corn land, will require 

 frequent harrowings until time to culti- 

 vate corn. After corn cultivation, un- 

 der normal conditions the harvest of 

 the wheat hay, pea and oat hay and 

 peas for seed will follow in rapid suc- 

 cession, thus making it possible with a 

 minimum number of teams to handle a 

 comparatively large orchard area. 

 Perennial Inter-Crops 



Alafalfa and Clover. — Alfalfa is one 

 of the most practical and profitable 

 orchard inter-crops grown in irrigated 

 sections or where an abundance of 

 moisture is assured. It should be used 

 only in strips in young orchards and 

 never planted closer than four feet 

 from the tree row. This allows room 

 for tree-row cultivation and under 

 favorable conditions will not injure th3 



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