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BETTER FRUIT 



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Cut back in February fnr production of new bearing wood. The light shaded 

 portions show wood removed. 







Tlie same in Seplcmlji 



following summer a vigorous new 

 growth will form, which will be set 

 with a heavy crop of fruit buds. 



In the South, peaches should be 

 pruned during the dormancy season. In 

 the case of orchards pruned regularly 

 and where it is seldom necessary to 

 remove large limbs, the pruning may be 

 done at any time during the fall and 

 winter months. Heavy pruning, how- 

 ever, should be done only in early 

 spring after danger of the heavy winter 

 freezes is past. Trees cut back (headed 

 back) in the fall are often killed by 

 severe winter weather. This was very 

 noticeable in Arkansas and Missouri 

 during the winter of 1918. Wherever 

 the trees had been cut back or de- 

 horned they were killed by the freezes 

 of January. The writer recalls one 

 orchard in which eighteen acres was 

 headed back in December, the remain- 

 ing twelve acres not being pruned until 

 March. All of the eighteen acres were 

 killed, while none of the trees pruned 

 in March seemed hurt. This is the uni- 

 versal experience of many of the peach 

 growers throughout the South. A good 

 adage regarding pruning peach trees is, 

 "Use the hand shears any time, but the 

 saw only in early spring." 



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When the trees become branchy, i. e., 

 the fruiting surface being produced far 

 out on ends of long branches, the trees 

 should be cut back. The accompanying 

 illustrations show a tree cut back in 

 February, and the same tree in Sei)teni- 

 ber. The large amount of wood re- 

 moved in cutting back (heading back) 

 causes a vigorous growth of new and 



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bearing wood on the main branches. 

 This enhances the life of the tree and 

 greatly increases the yielil. 



When an old tree becomes weakened 

 by disease or is injured by the winter, 

 its usefulness may be prolonged for 

 several years by dehorning. This is the 

 cutting off of the main leaders to stubs 

 of about one foot in length. During the 



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