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light. The method of dealing with this 

 problem is obvious. Other old trees 

 continue to produce good crops each 

 year, but the bearing is rapidly shifting 

 from the center of the tree to its upper 

 and outer portions so that great strain 

 is put upon the limbs and crotches by 

 the load of fruit. There still are spurs 

 in the interior of the tree, but they are 

 weak and unproductive. The problem 

 is to make them productive again and 

 thus to shift a part of the load to a 

 location where it can be held better and 

 thinned, sprayed and picked more eco- 

 nomically. No one pruning practice, as, 

 for instance, thinning-out or heading- 

 back is the means of solving all these 

 problems. It may take thinning-out 

 alone to handle one of them, heading- 

 back alone to handle another, a certain 

 combination of the two to handle a 

 third, and a still different combination 

 to handle the fourth. The thing to re- 

 member is that one series of results is 

 reasonably certain to follow the one 

 practice and that a quite different series 

 of results will follow the other practice. 

 The wrong pruning practice for any of 

 the problems presented is apt to make 

 conditions worse rather than to im- 

 prove them. 



As a kind of practical summary to 

 what has been said the following sug- 

 gestion is made. As each tree is ap- 

 proached by the pruner or by the per- 

 son who is to decide upon the pruning 

 treatment it is to receive these ques- 

 tions should at once occur to him: (1) 

 What is needed to develop further or 

 to correct its form? What does it need 

 in the way of training? (2) Does it 

 possess too few or too many frui 

 spurs? (3) Are its fruit spurs, particu- 

 larly those in the lower and interior 

 portions of the tree, strong and vigor- 

 ous and sufficiently productive? With 

 each of these questions in their turn 

 answered correctly and with a knowl- 

 edge of how the two pruning practices 

 that have been discussed operate to in- 

 fluence shoot, fruit-spur and fruit-bud 

 production, it is believed that approxi- 

 mately correct training and pruning 

 may be done — pruning that will make 

 the tree and efficient producer of high- 

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