THE KADOTA FIG 



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Kadotas produce an abundance of seasonal growth of 3 to 7 feet in 

 length. If not cut back next pruning season your trees will soon be full oi 

 long fishing poles and while your June crop will be reduced by shortening 

 back these long growths to 1 6 or 18 inches, the multitude of newer wood 

 resulting from the pruning vastly over-pays the losses occasioned by cutting, 

 and your tree is shaped better and a greater percentage of your fruit is 

 secured without the use of ladders. 



In my orchard I found.it cost 43 per cent more to gather a given tonnage 

 of fruit by using ladders than the same tonnage gathered by standing on the 

 ground. 



Furthermore, a Kadota tree should be kept pruned out in the center to 

 permit sun and air to enter, that a crop may be gathered from the inside 

 circumference of the tree as well as the outside circumference. 



Conduct your pruning along these lines and increase your tonnage very 

 considerably. 



Everyone has observed fig trees grown dense in the center, tall slender 

 limbs pushing up to the light and air at the extreme top of the tree and fruit- 

 ing only at that point, entirely out of reach of a picker. 



Remember, a fig tree produces only on the tip ends, and on new wood, 

 and axiomatically your tonnage will increase with increasing new tips and 

 quantity of new wood, and the greater the outside diameter of your tree the 

 greater the tonnage you will gather. Observe photos herewith presented 

 showing trees six years of age measuring over 1 00 feet in outside circumfer- 

 ence of the branches. 



Kadota Fig tree 5% years after planting. Observe the long, slender, non- 

 bearing limbs in this tree. Unwise pruning in first and second years per- 

 mitted this condition. 



