vi Preface 



The observing traveler is at once impressed with the 

 intelligence of the people who are engaging in fruit-grow- 

 ing in the inter-mountain country. We find here people 

 from all walks of life, attracted by the advantages of 

 climate or the possibilities of money-making in a pleasant 

 and healthful occupation. One may meet in a day's ride 

 among the orchards, former doctors, lawyers, teachers, 

 preachers, merchants, farmers, and young men recently 

 graduated from an eastern university or college. It is such 

 persons that create a demand for horticultural information, 

 and their letters to officers of the Experiment Stations, 

 while direct and intelligent, often would require one to 

 write a book in order to supply the information. We 

 have endeavored to meet this demand in the following 

 pages. 



The inter-mountain states include a vast territory, 

 where a great number of different conditions exists, and 

 inexperienced men are planting orchards in all parts of 

 this region at the rate of many hundred acres a year. It is 

 impossible to include everything of interest to the orchard- 

 ist in a volume of this size; however, we hope to supply 

 working information that will apply to the entire region; 

 and in a general way this book should be of value wherever 

 fruit is grown under irrigation. 



Several of the chapters have formed the basis of experi- 

 ment station bulletins, and the substance of most of them 

 has been given many times at horticultural short-courses. 

 The articles on Insects and Insecticides have been adapted 

 from the numerous writings of Professor C. P. Gillette, 

 Entomologist of the Colorado Experiment Station. The 

 discussion on Live-stock on the Fruit-farm was prepared 



