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How to Grow and Dry Apricots Successfully 



APRICOTS are the first of the larger 

 fruits that we handle. In previous 

 years the buyers would want large 

 fruit some years and in other years the 

 demand was for both the larger and the 

 smaller fruit. For the past two years, 

 however, the demand has been so great 

 for apricots that size mattered little if 

 the fruit was of good quality. The nor- 

 mal demand, however, is for good sized 

 fruit, and one of the problems that the 

 growers have had to solve is to obtain 

 it in a dry year. 



Methods of Dry Culture. 



There are two methods of obtaining 

 large sized fruit in a dry year — deep 

 plowing in the spring and good cultiva- 

 tion up to the time of thinning. If the 

 trees are young, but of the bearing age. 



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they will hold the fruit longer and 

 greener on the trees than trees ten to 

 fourteen years old, the young tree rip- 

 ening the fruit more slowly than the 

 old tree. 



If the spring rains do not come before 

 the latter part of March it is time to 

 commence deep plowing and thorough 

 cultivation. At the proper time, usually 

 between May 1 and May 10, the fruit 

 should be thinned. On young trees the 

 fruit should not be allowed to touch 

 each other on the branch. The bunches 

 and clusters in a dry year should be 

 thinned out to half a crop to secure 

 good sized fruit. Old trees should be 

 even more severely thinned, as the fruit 

 on them is inclined to grow in clusters 

 of from four to twenty on a fruit stem. 

 Thin them to one finger apart and to 

 half a crop. 



This advice is for the grower who has 

 no system of irrigation. By following 

 the above advice you will be reasonably 

 assured of good sized fruit in a dry year 

 and the sizes come up to the buyer's 

 idea of good, clean fruit. 

 Irrigation. 



If you wish to succeed every year, 

 rain or no rain, you must have irriga- 

 tion. If you have no water, place in 

 your apricot orchard a good sized 

 pumping plant, suitable to the number 

 of acres of fruit. It has been my exper- 

 ience that it will pay every owner of a 

 five-acre tract in orchard to have water 

 to put on it when needed. Irrigation is 

 the apricot grower's best investment to 

 insure a regular crop. 



Other Methods to Be Pursued. 



Like other branches of fruit growing, 

 apricot culture is a real science. One 

 should know at sight the condition of 

 the trees, their growth and what they 

 need. Apricots need good heavy prun- 

 ing every year. If it is a year of no 

 crop there will be plenty of inside 

 growth and lots of wood to cut out. 



The year of a good crop there will be 

 but little inside growth of wood. You 

 should watch carefully the condition of 

 your trees for the next year's buds by 

 thinning out all the inside growth and 

 shortening all straggling limbs. The 

 trees should be sprayed in the latter 

 part of November with bluestone and 

 lime or bordeaux mixture. In February 

 or just before the trees come into bloom 

 they should be sprayed with lime, sul- 

 phur and salt or given another spraying 

 with bordeaux mixture. The latter is 



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