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PRUNING BEARING TREES 



One side of the pruning problem is often overlooked. It takes 

 relatively few vigorous, v;ell placed branches to produce a full crop of high 

 quality fruit. If the ideal distribution of good branches on an acre of 

 orchard can be obtained with half as many trees, that is a real advantage 

 because the extra trees mean an added drain on soil fertility and moisture, 

 to say nothing of their shading effect on the other trees. Fruiting brariches 

 must have good exposure to light. The individual trees must therefore be 

 vvell spaced. Ground level pruning of half of the trees means economy in 

 spraying, fertilizing, thinning and later pruning. Instead of thinking en- 

 tirely in terms of pruning the individual tree, we ought to consider the 

 job on an acre basis, A number of vrell placed branches on a few trees is 

 better than a fev/ such branches on many trees. The majority cf bearing 

 orchards in Massachusetts include too many"boardor" trees. The bulldozer 

 is an ideal tool for eliminating these unwanted trees, V/hen they are out 

 of the way the remaining trees present much less of a problem. Drooping, 

 shaded, submerged, and other^vise handicapped branches and parts of branches 

 should be removed. Each remaining branch deserves a "place in the sun". The 

 branches v;e retain are much more important than the ones we cut off. 



1946 INDEX 

 (First number indicates t 



Apple By-Products 8/7 

 Apple Maggot 8/2 



le month; second, the page.) 

 Liming 2/9, 3/6 



Apple Scab l/4, 3/4, 3/6, 4/7, 5/3, 



6/2, 6/7, lo/o 

 Biennial Bearing 2/5 

 Bl-'ssom Thinning s/o, 7/7 

 Blueberries l/3 

 Chokechorries 6/6 

 Codling ivioth. 2/2 

 Coloring of Apples 2/6, 7/3, lo/? 

 DDT 2/2, 4/2, 2/8, 5/1 

 Du You Knov- - 5/5, 8/3, 9/8 

 Dropping of Apples 8/7 

 Dwarf Trees 5/4, 8/I, 8/5 

 Fci-m Labor 4/8 

 Farm Sxfety 2/IO 

 Fertii: c^^.-E I/6, 4/7, 9/2 

 Fi.-J P"'.if!.h+. 5/3 

 Frost Dr^r.age 4/3 

 Fruit Bvd Development 6/I 

 Fruit Cranking 8/5 

 Grading 8/7 

 Harvesting 6/8 



Magnesium Deficiency 5/7 



Marketing 4/4, 7/6, I0/5 



Mouse Control 8/6, 9/5 



Nursery Stock 6/8, 7/l, lo/l, I0/3 



Organic Fungicides 10/4 



Organic Matter 



Peaches I/8 . l/lO, 5/3 



Photosynthesis 7/5 



Plantiig U/2 



Poison Ivy 5/4 



Pcllin'.'.tion 3/3, 8/2 



Pruning 3/5, I0/7, 12/8 



Raspbeiri.is 2/3 



Red Mit«: 2/2 



Soil Conservation 9/l 



Sprayini: l/l. 2/7, I2/I 



Storage/ 2/12, -8/6., 9/6 



S t r awb ^rri ^s 1 /6 , 6/7 



Trends in Fri'.it Growing 9/2, 12/4 



Varieties 3/j... 4/5 



V/eatner 2/7, 7/4 



