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BETTER FRUIT 



February 



Is the fertilizer problem 

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 you cannot get the genuine 

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Influence of Winter Pruning 



Continued from page 14 



Steps to prevent. Winter pruning is 

 only one of the factors which will 

 aid you. 



Professor Morris: You spoke of the 

 pruning at the time trees are six or 

 seven years of age being generally too 

 much. People get in the habit of prun- 

 ing young trees in order to develop 

 stockiness and they get the habit. I 

 believe a very great amount of tree 

 growth and tree vigor and orchard 

 finance is lost in excessive pruning 

 from the time the frees are set until 

 in full bearing. I believe very, very 

 many people in every fruit-growing 

 district of Washington have become 

 over enthusiastic about heavy pruning 

 and that they have lost very seriously 

 because of it. 



"My Story of Securing Fruit Bud De- 

 velopment by Summer Pruning," L. \. 

 Pennoycr, Hamilton, Montana. You 

 can't have too many fruit spurs on a 

 tree — the more the better — but you 

 don't have to use them all the same 

 year. You can use one set one year and 

 another set the next year so that you 

 continuously have heavy crops of fruit. 

 To get a great number of fruit spurs 

 top in heavy in the winter to start with. 

 That will make the free throw out 

 water suckers. Little limbs v^ill come 

 out from the crotch of the tree up. We 

 stub these back to one, two or three 

 inches and form fruit spurs out of 

 those. In fact they will make fruit 

 spurs all the way down the scaffold 

 limbs. About the first of August when 

 the terminal buds start to form we stub 

 these in. This is our summer pruning. 

 By stubbing all this excessive growth 

 back is where we get our fruit spurs. 

 In fact you get so many fruit spurs you 

 don't know what to do with them. 

 Young trees always bear large fruil; 

 old trees will do the same thing on 

 young wood. Our winter pruning con- 

 sists in topping back every year, which 

 throws thriftiness into the tree and also 

 into the spurs. By this method when 

 a tree gels into bearing it will hold up 

 an enormous load without breaking 

 down. Don't let your trees get old. 

 You have got so many fruit spurs you 

 can spare some. Cut clear back to the 

 limbs and new spurs will come out and 

 you will get new wood again. 



Question: What is the age of your 

 trees'? 



Mr. Pennoyer: From four years old 

 up to twenty. 



Professor Morris: On the trees twenty 

 years old what is aijproximatelx' the 

 greatest length of extensional growth, 

 the average of the season's growth in 

 the top? 



Mr. Pennoyer: From two to three 

 feet up to forty inches. 



Question: What varieties do you 

 grow'.' 



Mr. Pennoyer: Wealthy antl Mcin- 

 tosh, although we have .Sp\ s and Ben 

 Davis. 



Question: What do you consider a 

 god \ icld from your older trees in the 

 number of boxes per tree'? 



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