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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
Fig. 4. Fourth Year. 
the gross value of field crops f. o. b. 
Grandview for 1913 was approximately 
$2,500 and of poultry and dairy products, 
$1,000. Help during the year cost about 
$500, leaving $3,000, which met all current 
expenses of the ranch, including living 
expenses. 
Crops grown in 1913 and Gcomments on 
same follow: 
Tree Fillers 
I wished to put in some peach fillers, 
mostly cling, and some apple fillers, so 
adopted the hexagonal system of plant- 
ing with permanent apple trees 33 feet 
apart and rows 28 feet apart with fillers 
in the same row as the permanent trees 
and 16% feet from the permanent trees. 
No appreciable revenue has yet been ob- 
tained from the peaches, but a good crop 
is indicated this (fourth season) year 
with $22.50 per ton offered by the Sun- 
nyside cannery. 
Hay 
Leaving eight feet for the tree row, 
my planting plan permitted of 20-foot 
This Orchard Has Had an Intercrop from the Time it Was Planted. 
strips of hay. <A total acreage of 16 
acres or a net acreage, excluding tree 
rows, of 11 acres, was in hay last year 
and yielded 45 tons, which was all fed 
on the ranch. Those portions of the 
ranch most heavily graded off were first 
seeded, using clover, as I expected to 
plow the sod up at the end of the second 
year. I am now making~-new seeding 
with alfalfa, as I expect to leave the 
ground in sod longer. I will state in 
this connection that clover is more of a 
surface feeder than alfalfa and seems to 
require more water to prevent robbing 
the trees of moisture. With care in 
watering and cultivating, I find no in- 
jurious results from stripping with grass 
but have seen many young orchards which 
have shown injury from seeding. 
Cantaloupes 
Six acres. Yield 1,150 crates. Re- 
turns f. 0. b. Grandview $1,350. This has 
been my best paying crop. Prices have 
been satisfactory three out of the last four 
years. The seeding and the harvesting 
