The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1909-07-09
1e Phillips County. Colo, Friday July 8 1909.
The Dry Orchard.

tween tbe Rockv ro,r,,;rs .nd NJ
souri river without IRRIGATION Evor,,
BODY laughed and some went 90 f,r
to saw that such ex,ocer,tod .ta,a
ments only burt the state. fou tool
the hint others bes,des myself b.d ar.
rived nj this trutb-a,d tbere are nou
shade trees and family orchards all :.
yer the state few and far betwoo, !,
| is true Int mite e,ouob for nroof ard
now after 20 wears every word of tbis
statement is accented as fact
Now I make another statemen, If
which even the Colorado w,;ters are A.
fraid and which the e.stern ,,ners al.
together decline to print or believe vet
which is capable of nroof and will be
generally accented in ansther % ve,rs
and that is that anv man can nlant n
dry orchard according IN the follow;,a
method and mako II abso,p,ely drou,h
proof.
This knowledge will do Won more good
now than 20 wears hence and I subm;t
il not for the enliybtenment of Mr. w
C. Curtis. Mr. Wallace and o,bor. wbo
affect to see little or no yood /, drv
farming. hut for the benefit of the few
who can prasp a truth in advance of
the popular belief and turn it 10 their
own advantage.
Before planting n single tree we go
to work and secure two wears moisture
for that tree hv nlow;no n wear abo,d
of time. keepinp the ground cultivated
and digging holes in the fall tn catch
snox and moisturs all winter Now ia
the time to get to work plow the
ground as deem as Won can and arrange
YOUR lands so as to bring vour dead fnr-
rows where the row Of trees 10 IN he
Bv doing this the surface ia disbed to-
ward the tree and if there is anv run off
il drains towards their roots These
dead burrows are also of great advant-
ayc as snow catcbers
Now a niece of land prenared in this
manner will accumulate in an ordinary
season from three to four feet Of moist
earth. from the surface down and in
the l.bles after n wet winter even fv,
or feet Now to drv all this moist
IRE al in n cultivated area witbou,
sry ,Q yrauu take two wears or more
without n drop of rain. "a that when \
vm,no tree ia planted two or three foe,
Ieen in all this mois,ure II ia AL
contend. absolutely droutb proof for in
tho past thirty vears the ,onyes, drou,h
has been only of a few months duration
driving ont no more than the ton six mr.
e;gbt inches which ;s of M vain. what
aver IN the tree ANYWAY
Then 90 To work and impound every
vear ten times as much mois,ure as the
tree ,ecds .s follows. avoung annie ,ree
ms, nlan,edusesun a few bundrednou,ds
of moistnre evcrv wear hu, wa civ.
these trees an area Of 40 feet so,are.
,l,ms and cbo,r;os oo. small fru;,s IN
Nov n vou ,igurc ont the prccinit,tion
an nm area of Ao foo, square soo
so,,are feet vou will find ,ba. II n
mounts IN abou, GO TONS per apnum
Now nm annie tree from N Ia % wears
of ,ge will use mn only from 20 tn 40
TONS ner anpum and can live II neces.
sarv on half of that, so that |, ia easy
10 understand ,ba, while the tree Is
Growing nm the orchard is gaining an
enormous amount of moisture for fu-
tlre use, and when the tree is full
grown YOU will have several tons TO the
good each year. which you hold by cul-
tiyation in your subsoil, and even II
your trees should need more moisture
when they get 30 or 40 years old they
can be thinned out to 50 feet apart,
which would give each tree about 2iO
tons per annum, so that there is no need
whatever to take any chances. You
make the moisture question in the or
ehard as exact science as building a