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Fourth. The sun can get into the tree and color and ripen 

 the fruit so much better that it' will bring full twenty cents more 

 per bushel in the market than if grown in the shade. 



Fifth. The remaining branches will grow so much faster and 

 become matured to bear up the fruit and withstand the hard winds. 



Sixth. The tree being more open will let the hard winds pass 

 through instead of being blown down. 



Seventh. Room is thereby made to get up into the tree for the 

 purpose of picking, pruning, etc. 



The Chairman : I do not like to have the chair utter an opinion, 

 but my notion is if you are going to prune the apple orchard you 

 want to do it with pretty good judgment. 



J. O. Weld, Mound. 



Mr. C. F. Gardner (Iowa) : Are there not more trees in 

 Minnesota and Iowa killed by pruning than by not pruning? 



The Chairman: If that is a personal question I want to say 

 that in my humble opinion there are. In my opinion in this country 

 we do not need as much pruning as they do down east. 



Mr. C. F. Gardner: If people here want to grow fruit they 

 had better keep away from Massachusetts and other eastern states. 

 (Laughter.) 



The Chairman: In Minnesota and this country up here the 

 conditions are so different from what they are in the eastern states 



