X Contents 



The Location and Its Climate, Continued Pages 



Windbreaks foe Fruit-plantations 65- 63 



Benefits 56 



Injuries 66 



Forests and fruit-growing 57- 58 



General statement . 58- 60 



How to make the windbreak 60- 63 



CHAPTER III 



The Tillage op Fruit-Lands 64^108 



The case of the early apple plantings 67- 69 



Sod orchards 69- 72 



Allowable use of sod 72- 75 



The Philosophy op Tillage 75- 84 



The structure of the soil 77- 81 



The moisture of the soil . . . . 81-84 



Use op the Various Tools in Relation to Moisture- 

 saving 84- 91 



Plowing to save moisture 84^ 85 



Harrowing to save moisture . 85- 88 



Cultivators and moisture-saving 88- 89 



The roller, in its relation to soil-moisture 89- 91 



Suggestions fob the Tilling of Fruit-lands .... 91-102 



Preparation of the land 91- 94 



Subsequent tillage 94- 97 



Specific advice on tillage 97-102 



CsoppiNG the Plantation 102-106 



Orchard crops 104—106 



Ibbioation op Fbuit-landb 106-108 



Irrigation in the East 106-108 



CHAPTER rV 



The Enriching op Feuit-Lands 109-152 



The land is to be kept at work 109-112 



The lesson of nursery lands 112-113 



Cover-crops 113-126 



The kinds of cover-crops . 116-123 



List and rates of Seeding of cover-crop plants .... 123 



Average quantity of seed to the acre ........ 124-125 



Weights of the seeds of cover-plants 125-126 



