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ently produce optimum or maximum 

 crops, are few and far between. 



The outstanding feature of the prune 

 industry from observations made in an 

 official capacity in many of the prune 

 orchards of the State, is that in the com- 

 petition of the future, tlie young or- 

 chards planted in the last 5 or 6 years 

 should far outdistance the old tracts 

 both in annual yield and in old age. 

 Left to itself, the prune tree will deter- 

 iorate very rapidly. No orchard will 

 improve by neglect. A prune orchard, 

 however, should not be old at 25 years 

 and on the decline, but should be in its 

 prime and growing its largest crops at 

 that age because of its great spread of 

 fruiting wood and the development of 

 its root system. The fact remains that a 

 G or 7 per cent replant each year would 

 not hold the total production steady, 

 because the older orchards are drop- 

 ping off very fast regardless of the fact 

 that most of them are less than 30 years 

 old. There is an orchard in this county 

 43 years old that is still bearing good 

 crops, whereas another tract just over 

 the fence on identically the same type 

 of soil, at 25 years is gradually dying 

 out. 



Most of the old trees are suffering 

 from heart rot, which is year by year 

 encroaching upon the sap-wood and 

 thereby weakening the tree until it has 

 neither the strength nor the inclination 

 to set large crops of prunes. Heart rot 

 is caused by several species of fungi 

 which gain entrance through the unpro- 

 tected wounds and stubs left by the 

 pruner and insidiously extend their op- 

 erations until the tree either dies, or is 

 blown over, or is weighted down by a 

 crop of fruit. There is no practical way 

 to cure heart rot. The only thing that 



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