Title: Cirtus fruits under irragation
Identifier: cirtusfruitsunde00scra (find matches)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Citrus fruits; Fruit-culture
Publisher: Scranton : International Textbook Co.
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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10 CITRUS FRUITS UNDER IRRIGATION § 22 tached and the four furrows arc made by one trip down the row and another back, the trip in each direction covering half the width of the strip to be furrowed. When six furrows are to be made three shovels are attached to the cultivator and the trip up and down the rows made. Hand shovels are used to make the connecting head furrows from the standpipes to the furrows between the trees. These connecting furrows are shown in Fig. 3.
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Fig. 9 8. The straight-furrow method is the one generally used when the trees are small. When they get large, it becomes difficult to get near the trees in making the furrows, and the zigzag-furrow or the winding-furrow method is then used by many growers. Some prefer, however, to use the straight- furrow method, even in mature groves. §22 CITRUS FRUITS UNDER IRRIGATION 11 A grove at Pomona, California, watered by the zigzag-furrow method is shown in Fig. 10. The photograph from which this illustration was made was furnished by the United States Department of Agriculture, and gives a good idea of the appear- ance of a grove being irrigated by this method. Fig. 11 is a diagram of a grove watered by the zigzag-furrow method. The head furrow a is shown at the right, and the

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