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Excerpt from Fruit-Growing in Arid Regions: An Account of Approved Fruit-Growing Practices in the Inter-Mountain Country of the Western United Stated, Comprising the States of Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and in Northern Arizona and New Mexico, With Applications to Adjacent Regions
The observing traveler is at once impressed with the intelligence of the people who are engaging in fruit-grow ing in the inter-mountain country. We find here people from all walks of life, attracted by the advantages of climate or the possibilities of money-making in a pleasant and healthful occupation. One may meet in a day's ride among the orchards, former doctors, lawyers, teachers, preachers, merchants, farmers, and young men recently graduated from an eastern university or college. It is such persons that create a demand for horticultural information, and their letters to officers of the Experiment Stations, while direct and intelligent, often. Would require one to write a book in order to supply the information. We have endeavored to meet this demand in the following pages.
The inter-mountain states include a vast territory, where a great number of different conditions exists, and inexperienced men are planting orchards in all parts of this region at the rate of many hundred acres a year. It is impossible to include everything of interest to the orchard ist in a volume of this size; however, we hope to supply working information that will apply to the entire region; and in a general way this book should be of value wherever fruit is grown under irrigation.
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