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and the idea usually- drawn from most of our articles, is 

 that the work is too expensive to make orchard growing 

 profitable in the more arid portions of this country. This 

 is quite an error, fully demonstrated by the figures given 

 of our own work in the orchard of the Pomeroy model 

 farm in 1900. 



EXPERIENCE IN KANSAS. 



In this chapter is shown an illustration of a peach tree 

 grown on the Pomeroy model farm in Kansas, from a 

 photograph taken in the fall after the first season's growth. 

 The tree had then been in the ground five months. The 

 trees in this orchard were all cut back to about three feet 

 when they were set, and all limbs cut back so as to leave 

 but two buds to the limb. The second season's growth 

 is shown in the illustration where a growth of seventeen 

 months indicates a remarkable result. This photograph 

 was taken August 23, 1901. The contrast in growth as 

 shown in these two illustrations ought to be sufficient 

 proof of what can be done in trees growing where the 

 preparation of the soil has been right. It shows that 

 without irrigation orchards may be grown in the most 

 arid portions of the states of Colorado, Kansas and Ne- 

 braska. The body of the tree shown as of first season's 

 growth, measured a little over an inch in diameter, while 

 the body of the tree after 17 months' growth measured 

 two and one-half inches in diameter. As the man standing 

 by the tree measured six feet three inches, to the top of 

 his hat, the reader may get some idea of the remarkable 

 growth of these trees. There is no reason why they should 

 not have made this remarkable growth, for, although we 

 experienced a continuous dry period, with the excessive 

 heat of one hundred degrees and above for forty-three 

 days, from June 18 to August 1, entirely without rain; 



