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The Principles of Fruit-growing 



ROTATION SCHEME OF PEACH ORCHARDS 

 Heavy figures represent bearing years 



Aside from a rotation of fields, it is often advisable to 

 lay out a rotation of crops in the orchards themselves 

 when the trees are young. Such rotation practice would 

 reduce the great amount of tillage labor by keeping part 

 of the area always in clover or other sod, would correct the 

 faults of a continuously recurring treatment, would guard 

 against neglect, and would allow of a somewhat definite 

 plan of work for some years ahead. The rotation should 

 be short and should contain the maximum of tilled crops. 

 A three-year course might fit the conditions well, for it 



