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Caring; for Bearing Orchards- 

 Calendar o f Operations. 



Irrigation 

 Pruning 



Fertilizing 



Cultivation 



Fumigating 



Every 4 weeks from April to November 



Once in fall to open tree 



Once in spring to remove suckers (June) 



Manure and chemical fertilizers used, the practice 

 varying. Cover crop of rye, bitter clover, or 

 alfalfa planted in August or September, irrigated 

 every two weeks, and plo'-ved under in February or 

 March. 



Plowed both ways in spring 8" deep, cultivated 

 tv'o times betv/een irrigations. 



Once in one or tv/o years for scale v/ith cyanide of 

 sodium or cyanide of potassium. Done by con- 

 tract. Not necessary in scale free districts. 



Time: From middle of July to January 1. 



Thinning Fruit: Not done, tree crov/ded to carry all fruit v;hich sets 



by cultivating, fertilising and irrigating. 



Spraying : Sometimes for scale, but usually fumigation takes 



, pla.ce of spraying. Always spray for red spider. 



Harvest- 



Time : Average 10 pickings a year. 



Method: Carefully cut by hand, sizes 2 l/4" in winter and 2 l/S" in 



summer. 



Preparing for Market: Washed, sorted, packed and ripened. Boxes 11" x 



14 l/2" X 27" (outside measurements) holding 

 219 to 490 lemons - graded according to size. 

 Weight z 84# gross, lejf net, 396 boxe? per 

 standard car. 

 In fall, to take advantage of high prices, all 

 lemons are artificially colored and rushed to 

 market. In ?/intor, the plan is to retard ripening. 



> of Different Grades 



Pac king fruit : 

 Culls : 10^^ 

 Yields of Different Grades. 



9 of. 



Good 

 Usual 



300 



150 



packed boxes 



Commercial Sections- 



Los Angeles County 

 Orange " 

 Riverside " 



San Bernardino County 

 San Diego " 

 Ventura " 



