64 ORCHARD MANAGEMENT. 



The same of most grasses; red clover is an exception. 

 There is the objection to this, however, that it is 

 quite apt to invite the pocket gophers which are a 

 great pest in an orchard. 



As a rule it is best not to try to raise anything 

 in the orchard but the trees and fruit, unless we 

 take advantage of the orchard to grow such plants 

 as cannot be well grown elsewhere. This is applic- 

 able to the raspberry. This fruit is quite apt to 

 be tender in more open and exposed positions. If 

 the trees are 20 feet apart, two rows of them 

 can be grown between each row while the trees are 

 from six to eight years old, and as they get older, 

 grow only one. This is done with great success in 

 localities where the raspberry cannot be practically 

 grown in any other way without winter covering. 



Level cultivation is at all times better for the 

 orchard. I cannot conceive of a necessity in a 

 properly cared for orchard of ever introducing the 

 stirring plow, except for ridging up in low flat land. 



There are many enemies to the orchard such as 

 insects, etc., which must be watched. These ene- 

 mies will be treated in a separate chapter on ene- 

 mies of the orchard. 



FEEDING. 



Intimately connected with the space that is to 

 be given to each tree or the number of trees to the 

 acre, is the subject of feeding the trees. We can 

 not expect to ' 'get something for nothing." We will 

 again compare a tree to animals, this time horses 



