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FIG. 56. The result of bad crotches. The tree 

 can be saved for further usefulness by bolting 

 the ti<uo halves together. 



Fig". 56, shows two of the 

 split trees and several vacant 

 spaces where broken trees 

 have been removed. 

 Nearly one-fourth of the 

 trees in this seven-acre 

 orchard are already broken 

 down, and as many more 

 are split. There are only 

 a few orchards in the hun- 

 dreds examined in which 

 the trees were thus sys- 

 tematically pruned to form 

 crotches, but in a large 

 number of orchards a few 

 trees have them. 



The split trees and those 

 that are in danger of split- 

 ting can yet be saved by 

 the use of bolts. A band 

 put around a tree will 

 girdle it, but a bolt put 

 through it does no appre- 



FIG. 57. The -final result of bad crotches. 



