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Cultivation 



If no compginion crops arc grovrn, plcved 

 two v/ays in Tetruary and March to. turn 

 under -.veeds and green manure crops. 

 Cultivated 2 to 4 times betv/een irriga- 

 tions. Usually clean cultivation is 

 practiced, altho in sorie groves beans 

 for 1, 2 or 3 years are grcwn; if suffi- 

 cient ^ater and fertility is available, cabbage, 

 nursery sto&k, corn and sometimes alfalfa are 

 raised. 



Caring for Bearing Orchards- 



Calendar of Operations- 



Irrigation 

 Pruning 



Feirtilizing 



Cultivation 



Every month from April to November. 



Pruned in fall to open tree and sometimes in 

 spring to remove suckers (June) 



Manure and chemical fertilizers used, the 

 practice varying. Cover crop of rye, vetch, 

 bitter clover, or alfalfa planted in 

 August or September - irrigated every two^ 

 '.veeks and plov/ed under in February or 

 March . 



Plo^ved both ways in February or March 8" deep, 

 cultivated tv/o times between irrigation. 



Fumigating : Once in one or two years for scale v/ith cyanide 

 of sodium or cyanide of potassium. Done by 

 contract, association or county outfits. 

 Not necessary in scale free districts. 



Time: Any time from July to January 1. 



Thinning Fruit: Not done, tree crowded to carry all fruit 



which sets by cultivation, fertilization and 

 irrigation. 



Spraying 



Sometimes for scale, but usually fumigation takes 

 place of spraying. 



Harvest- 



Time : Navel (South of Tehachapi) Dec. 

 (North of Tehachapi) Nov, 



15 - May 15 

 15 - Jan. 1 



Valencia (South of Tehachapi) 



Redlands July 15 - Oct. 1 



Placentia Sept, 15 - Dec, 1 



(North of Tehachapi) May - July 



