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turns have come earlier. Vegetables 

 have been one of the favorite crops, 

 and particularly has this been true of 

 potatoes and cantaloupes. 



Vegetable inter-cropping has not as 

 rule, when practiced in a large way, 

 been as profitable as when confined to 

 small units. The principal reason for 

 this has been the inability of the or- 

 chardist to profitably market his prod- 

 uct. Thousands of growers have found 

 no dilliculty in producing tons of vege- 

 tables, but very few of them are able to 

 market more than a tenth part of what 

 they grow. This problem has become 

 so serious in many places that the vege- 

 table growers find it necessary now to 

 confine their efforts to the production 

 of crops that have a value as stock food 

 when they are unable to market them 

 as fresh vegetables. Splendid examples 

 of these crops are potatoes, pumpkins, 

 squash, carrots, corn and peas. 



Potatoes and Tomatoes. — These are 

 excellent inter-crops when intelligently 

 handled, as they insure the orchard 

 of good cultivation and proper care. 

 Grov^-ers who wish to grow the potato 

 as a general crop should plan on doing 

 so for a period of years, since the 

 prices for this crop are very variable 

 and it is not considered a safe crop for 

 a single year. In many districts the 

 tomato has proven to be a profitable 

 crop, and particularly so where there 

 is a cannery or extended fresh-fruit 

 market. 



Hoot Crops. — Carrots are unquestion- 

 ably the most safe and profitable root 

 crop to grow among trees where the 

 orchardist can feed them to stock. 

 Thirty to forty tons per acre are not 

 unconmion yields, and with a feeding 

 value of from six to seven dollars ])er 

 ton the profitableness of this crop is 

 easily apparent. They are not hard on 

 the soil and orchards inter-cropped 

 with them have done remarkably well. 

 Sugar beets and mangels, while good 

 feed, are not as ijopular as carrots with 

 most growers. This is partially due to 

 the fact that they recpiire more careful 

 thinning and are sometimes troubled 

 with ai)his. 



lA'tluce. — The lettuce croiJ is a spe- 

 cial crop requiring more patience and 

 skill to successfully produce than the 

 ordinary crop, and yet to a few grow- 

 ers favorably located and gifted with 

 the ability to market a special crop it 

 has proven a wonder. I have known 

 several successful lettuce growers to 

 produce two good crops of fine head 

 lettuce a year on their land and make 

 enough from the sales of one crop to 

 pay for their land twice over. These 

 are exceptional cases, however, and 

 should not be taken as the average. 



(;oin. — Where corn can be success- 

 fully grown it is one of the favorite 

 croi)s f)f most men, because it repre- 

 sents to them an easy crop to grow and 

 one that, while not as profitaljle as 

 some crops, always represents a fair 

 income. Tall-growhig field corn should 

 not be ijlanted among young trees, as 

 (here is danger of it shading the trees 

 and preventing fruit-bud development. 

 There are several semi-dwarf varieties 



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