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STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



the orchard comes into liearing, however, the trees must be 

 copiously watered, or the fruit will be small. 



Of the methods of irrigation, the simplest, best, and most 

 generally used, is the furrow system, in which several furrows 





luEiGATiNG— The Old AVay. 



The furrows were made with the plow, and water run through in large streams, 



thereby cutting up the land and washing away the available plant-food. 



are plowed between the rows of trees, the first one about three 

 feet distant from the trunks, and down these the water is allowed 

 to flow graduall}^ until the ground is thoroughly saturated. 





The Basin System of Irrigation. 

 The orchard is laid out in square basins, ready to run water into them. 



Irrigation by the basin method is performed by hollowing out, 

 around each tree, a basin with a diameter equal to the spread of 

 the branches; into this the water is run, and when filled it is 

 conducted to the next, and so on until all the basins have been 



