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wood appear eight or ten days later 

 than on the old wood, thus giving the 

 fruit on the old wood an advantage 

 from the start. It is on the last year's 

 wood that you get the small, poorly 

 colored and imniatured apples. Never 

 leave two apples so they will touch. 

 The point of contact will prevent color- 

 ing and ofl"ers a harboring place for 

 insects. 



The trees should be gone over again 

 in the middle of the summer, and all 

 misshapen, limb-rubbed and marked 

 apples should be taken off and allow 

 the strength to go into the remaining 

 apples on the tree. These apples are 

 "C" grade at that time and will never 

 be any higher grade. We will get more 

 "C" grade apples than we should have 

 anyhow. The Jonathan, Wagener and 

 Winesap should be thinned as soon 

 after the fruit sets as iiossible. The 

 earlier that we can thin them the larger 

 the fruit will be. 1 have done this for 

 several years and never have had the 

 June drop, unless they had been injured 

 by late frost. However, with the Spitz 

 and Rome Beauty I find this a useless 

 expense, for I find that with me they 

 will have the June drop anyway. I tind 

 that very few of us have sullicient 

 nerve to thin enough. 



I will never forget the advise of the 

 venerable C. L. Smith, given at the first 

 farm institute that I attended in this 

 state, in which he said: "Thin until 

 you think that you have enough off, 

 then go over the trees again and take 

 ofl' one-half of the remainder." I have 

 found this to be splendid advice, espe- 

 cially on older trees. Of course the 

 older trees will require more severe 

 thinning than young trees. If we thin 

 early and thin severely we will grow 

 larger fruit, and it will also have a 

 tendency to make the trees bear a fair 

 crop of fruit each year. I would also 

 advise thinning as an aid to spraying in 

 this district where the apple scab is 

 one of the problems that we have to 

 contend with. It is utterly impossible 

 to coat the fruit with the spray if two 

 apples touch each other. I hear a great 

 many men complain of the expense of 

 thinning. I would like to say that it 

 does not cost as much to thin the excess 

 off and let it drop to the ground in the 

 spring as it would to pick it off in the 

 fall and place it in a picking bag and 

 then go to the expense of sorting them 

 out. 



From the best authority that we have, 

 the production of apples in the North- 

 west is sure to increase very rapidly, 

 and if we hope to reap the full measure 

 of success we nnist grow a high per- 

 centage of Extra Fancy fruit. The low- 

 grade fruit will not stand the freight 

 and will injure the sale of the better 

 grades. We are tqo far from the large 

 centers of consumjition to hope to mar- 

 ket anything but the very best grades 



Wanted 



Position as foreman or 

 superintendent on a fruit 

 or general farm by voung 

 married man; agricultural college graduate; ex- 

 perienced on both fruit and dairy farms. Strictly 

 temperate; good references. 



Address R. W. M.. 

 2219 H. Street Bellingham, Washington 



Sebastopol Gravensteins 



The crop of famous Sebastopol Gravenstein Apples is now 

 moving. Season closes August 26th. The best apples from 

 over 200 of our best orchards. Community packing houses 

 insure uniform pack. 



See our representative or wire us. 



Sebastopol Apple Growers' Union 



SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA 



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