xvi Contents 



PAGES 



After second season 269 



After third season 269-270 



Vegetative, transitory and fruitage stages . . . 270-276 



Transition period 270-271 



The fruiting period 271 



Fruit-buds 271-272 



Changing system of pruning 272-274 



Bearing trees 274-275 



Distribution and establishment of fruiting 



wood . . . 275-276 



Time of pruning , . 276-277 



Pruning tools 277-278 



Wound dressings 278 



Thinning 278-283 



Time and method of thinning 281-282 



Cost of thinning 283 



CHAPTER XIII 



RENOVATION OF OLD ORCHARDS 284-290 



General treatment 285-286 



Pruning 286-238 



Spraying 288 



Soil management 289-290 



CHAPTER XIV 



HANDLING THE CROP 291-312 



Picking 291-296 



Contract picking versus day labor .... 294 



Picking utensils 294-296 



Packing 296-312 



Sorting and packing barreled apples . . . 296-302 



Orchard packing 297-298 



Packing-houses for barreled apples . . 298-302 



Handling the western box apple crop . . . 302-307 



Orchard carriers 303 



Sorting and packing the boxed apples . 303-305 



