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Intensive Cultivation in tho Northwwt.
Lnnd is valuable In tho Northwest and many successful ranchers grow wealthy through utilizing their
land to tho greatest degree, from a steady rotation of crops to practicable intensive cultivation. In tho abovo
picture- is shown an orchard of Oano apples with strawberries growing between tho rows of trees. Tho photo
graph was taken near Gohlendale, Washington.
Whjlo this is not intensive cultivation in a fino degrco it is a method of utilizing most of tho land. It
appears that the trees might hnvo been planted closer together and still allow for four rows of strawberries
between tho lines. It is possible this same land might b) mado to produce- from a third to a fourth more. Tlicro
in suoh a thing, of course, as pushing intensivo cultivation too far, robbiug tho land of its fertility. In gen
oral the foreigner that eomes to this country knows more about intensivo cultivation than tho avcrago Ameri.
can who looks at the land in acres whero tho former figures in yards. Many a small plot of ground on Italian
hills has been made to produco more, particularly in tho way of small vegetables, than tho average Western
ranch devoted to similar crops. A study of intonsivo cultivation may prove of valuo to any farmor, for it is
seldom tho knowledge may not bo put to practical use.
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