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ered, for an understanding of them is 

 of the utmost importance. Varieties 

 like the Newtown and Spitzcnberg, that 

 bear many of their fruits in clusters, 

 may be benefited by thinning even 

 when the yiekl is moderate, because, as 

 has been pointed out, the percentage of 

 culls may be increased quite materially 

 by allowing individual fruits to touch 

 each other. Varieties such as Wine- 

 saps, which naturally are inclined to 

 bear small speciments if allowed to 

 bear a full load, may have the size of 

 their fruits increased materially by 

 judicious thinning. On the other hand, 

 some varieties, such as the King apple 

 and the Clairgeau pear, are apt to grow 

 to a size too large to be best for market- 

 ing if thinned considerably. Care must 

 be taken not to thin too heavily or too 

 early on some varieties that shed heav- 

 ily, such as Arkansas Black. Many vari- 

 eties that bring low prices on the mar- 

 kets, such as the Ben Davis, it may not 

 pay to thin when prospects are good 

 for large yields of the better sorts. 



"The cost of thinning will vary 

 greatly with the size and shape of the 

 tree — whether low or high-headed — 

 and the load of fruit it carries. Ordin- 

 arily it will take a man from one and 

 one-half to four hours to complete the 

 job on mature trees. 



"The best way for every fruit grower 

 to find out whether thinning pays for 

 him or not, is to try it carefully on a 

 few trees, leaving others unthinned to 

 check on. He should keep track of the 

 amount of time required in thinning 

 and in harvesting, and should note the 

 differences in the proportionate amount 

 of culls obtained from the thinned and 

 unthinned trees. After the fruit is sold 

 he can then figure out which method 

 gave him the largest net profit." 



Summer Prunning 



The importance of summer-pruning 

 young apple trees is little understood 

 by many fruit growers. The habit has 

 become so firmly fixed that all pruning 

 is invariably done during the late win- 

 ter or early spring months. 



While winter pruning will always be 

 most important, because less injury is 

 done to the trees at this season, espe- 

 cially to old bearing trees, yet, for the 

 best success with young trees, sunmier 

 pruning should be as regularly per- 

 formed as winter pruning. After the 

 shape of the tree has been obtained 

 through winter pruning, the filling out 

 of the branches and the trunk should 

 be accomplished by summer pruning. 

 This is especially true during the fourth 

 and fifth years after planting. As a 

 rule, most fruit growers prune their 

 young trees too heavily during these 

 years. Growth becomes too excessive, 

 especially in length, and the branches 

 do not become properly braced at the 

 crotches of the tree. If summer prun- 

 ing is done between the middle and the 

 latter part of .lune, wlien the growth in 

 length has reached from twelve to 

 fifteen inches, by cutting off the ter- 

 minal buds, it will invariably check 

 the growth in length and increase the 

 thickness of the trunk and branches. 



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