Arizona republican., 1917-11-21
STOCK, CROP AND
 POULTRY RAISING
 MEANS MORE FOOD
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SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. 20.-Meth- ods of stock, crop and poultry rais- ing in orchards as a means of 1n- creasing the nations food supply were outlined in a paper by Pro- lessor C. l. Lewis, chief of division of horticulture, Oregon State Agri cultural college, read before the Northwestern Fruit Growers confer ence here today. Professor Lewis was not present, but his paper was read by the secretary.
 Professor Lewis declared in his paper that such activities could be pursued profitably if the orchardists | followed certain conditions which he outlined.
 The paper of Professor Lewis said in part:
 The question of inter- cropping and other revenue practices in con- nection with our orchards is very largely a problem for each district | to solve. In order to study the question to advantage we should di- vide the trees of the orchard into three natural groups.
 "The first group includes those trees which are from one to five years of age; namely, the trees which are passing through the formative | period The second group is made up of those trees from five to eight years of age; the period when the trees are passing from their forma tive development or body building into the fruiting period. The third group consists of trees more than 1 eight years old trees which have | reached heavy fruiting.
 | ba 1,orio6 from ono tO five ,-o1 re of age is the body building period. 1 The strawberry has been and con- tinues to be perhaps the best money maker during this period. In those sections where the Loganberry can be grown successfully this fruit can be handled to advantage. Plants to he sold for seed purposes can be grown to splendid advantage, such as high grade seed potatoes. In sec tiOns extremely early. forced veg | etables, such as early tomatoes, melons, spinach, beans, etc.
 For those who are raising hogs in connection with the orchard crops should be planted in summer for fall and early winter hog feed. Such crops as cowcorn or Aberdeen tur- nips, rape, vetch and Canada field peas, can be raised to advantage.
 'Buckwheat is a very satisfactory crop to plant in the spring. If one l finds there is to be no crop on the young trees, these grain crops can be nicely harvested by hogs if one so desires
 The third period, or heavy fruit ing period, calls for entirely new | treatment for our trees. In the ir- | rigated sections the growers practice | sowing their orchards to alfalfa clover, or vetch. This should not be out for hay where the soil is very low in organic matter and the trees are making questionable growth. The crop which one would choose would | depend on the soil or locality. In some of the sandy soils of the Co., lumbia basin, the vetch is rapidly becoming the leading crop. In many of our interior sections the alfalfa is the superior crop. In the noun tains and coast valleys, clover has a great deal of merit, practically al the water in the section devoted tc the shade crop.
 Hay can be cut for the horses ant for the COW, but the cutting of hay extensively among trees is not a very economical proposition. Hogs anC sheep offer one of the best ways O
 utilizing these shade crops. If ont will not allow the sheep to pastur. the forage too close, they do not
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