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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />This is an installation in the North Fork. It is on Allen Rugg's farm, <br />and he has about 1,400 new trees up there that were just about to go to <br />pieces. The ditches were all turned off during the drought, and we <br />moved this system up there on his place, and he was able to save those <br />trees last year. <br /> <br />This is the second year for them, and they are doing tremendously well. <br />These are sweet cherries here on the left. and on the right are the <br />peaches. There are some of them that didn't make it last year, and he <br />replanted again. But, on the whole, that orchard is really corning <br />along well. They are growing by leaps and bounds. <br /> <br />This is Rob ROy's place up atPaonia on Lambert Mesa. He has about <br />2,000 trees and is putting in more. These are mostly apple trees, and <br />he has gone to close planting, where they can get somewhere around <br />3,000 bushel per acre of apples, which is almost phenomenal. <br /> <br />This is a very, very close planting. Some of the ways that they operate <br />-- these people brought over from Europe the way they plant their trees. <br />These trees are about six or seven feet apart and are put on trellises. <br /> <br />This is all with a drip irrigation system. This is one of the drips <br />that you can see there with the water corning out next to the small tree. <br /> <br />All of these things have got to be monitored, the amount of water that <br />goes into them. And we have found that the tensiometers are the way to <br />go. We maintain these tensiometers at 20 percent of saturation at all <br />times. When it is done right, it tends to make these things just really <br />grow well. <br /> <br />One of the problems is that it makes the weeds grow fast, too. <br /> <br />This is the way we plan an orchard. I have a little explanation in <br />the back there of the way it is set up and programed for determining <br />what the pressure is at each tree and the length of micro tube to <br />compensate for the difference in pressure as you go down the hill on <br />this thing. In the middle of that plan there, you can see there is a <br />break in the middle somewhat, we changed the size of the hose in the <br />middle there and also the size of the micro tube from each point, from <br />each tree. They will have four of those micro tubes on each tree, and <br />they each put out four gallons per hour. <br /> <br />This is another plan on another orchard~ a growing orchard. <br />one of these sprinkler systems that I showed you that it was <br />be, and it will also be set up for frost protection. <br /> <br />This is <br />going to <br /> <br />This is at the Rogers Mesa Station, where we installed thOse micro jet <br />sprinklers there. The trees are doing real well. You can't tell much <br />just from looking at it. The whole area is free of everything except <br />for the growth there caused by the .spri~leritself. <br /> <br />One of the orchards is far enough down that it will work without a pump. <br />The other orchard has to have a pump on it and also has a storage tank <br />that they are building in there. The storage tank will take care of <br /> <br />-25- <br />