HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Cu-oi>er:itive Milk Marketing 



Continued from page 3. column 3 

 tials were not taken into consideration in 

 the eagerness to become a factor in tlie 

 dairy industry of tlie state at one swoop. 

 Consequently, mistakes were made and 

 miglity expensive ones at that. 



"Instead of tlioroughly organizing and 

 building up unit by unit, the League un- 

 dertook too much at a time, which re- 

 sulted in an unwieldy and expensive 

 organization." 



THINNING APPLES 



Practice Found to be Profitable 



Thinning is an important orchard prac- 

 tice. Larger size, better colored, and 

 more uniform fruit is possible at a com- 

 paratively small cost. Answers to a re- 

 cent orchard management questionnaire 

 show that two-thirds of the best fruit 

 growers practice thinning at a profit, and 

 that Wealthy, Baldwin and Mcintosh 

 were thinned by most of these men. ' 



Massachusetts apples are known for 

 their good flavor. To maintain this rep- 

 utation and to realize the most from the 

 crop in view of the increasing production, 

 it is necessary to give careful attention to 

 all orchard practices that combine to 

 make a perfect product. 



The size may be markedly increased by 

 .spacing the apples on the limbs. The 

 number of 3-inch apples in a block of 

 Wealthy trees in an experiment in the 

 Clark Orchard at M. A. C. was increased 

 from nothing to S.g'/r by spacing to 6 

 inches on -July .5. . Distances varying 

 from 8 to 10 inches are used by good 

 growers to their entire satisfaction. 



The color of the fruit on heavily loaded 

 trees is much superior where thinning is 

 practiced. The apples are not only 

 deeper red, but are colored more evenly. 



In the thinning experiment at M. A. C. 

 the percentage of "A" Grade apples was 

 raised from 14. .3'/' to 42.8'a or nearly 

 three times as many "A" Grade apples 

 were harvested from the thinned trees. 



Thinning is also of benefit to the tree, 

 as much of the energy and vigor of the 

 tree can be saved with just as large a 

 financial return when thinning is prac- 

 ticed early in the season. This saving of 

 energy is not sufficient to produce annual 

 bearing, but is a step in that direction. 



A great deal of the inferior fruit can 

 be removed early in the season to the 

 benefit of the remaining fruit and to the 

 reduction of the harvest cost. 



The first of .July seems to be the best 

 time to thin, as then the .June drop is over 

 and the fruit is large enough to be 

 thinned thoroughly and yet thinning at 

 that time is not late enough in the sea- 

 son to lose much of the benefit of the op- 

 eration. 



Frederirk E. Cole. 



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