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over-supply of fruit in the fruiting year no one can sell the 

 produce at a paying price. To overcome this difficulty one 

 of those villages ventured to practice the removal of flowers 

 while young in the fruiting year and thus bring forth a crop in 

 an off year by such an ingenious method. In such a way; Kaki 

 trees in botli villages come to bear in alternate years. Two 

 villages do not agree in. the season of bearing. Thus, the fruit 

 market in the market being well regulated a glut in the 

 market could be avoided. 



Such a procedure seems to have been derived only from 

 considerations of individual economy of the grower ; but have 

 not sprung from the co-operative idea of both yillages. 



It has long been said among our people that Kaki trees 

 dislike pruning by knife or iron tools. This erroneous idea 

 has spread and it is still maintained by our growers. The 

 idea seems to have sprung from the fact of dull healing of 

 wounds in the root, as well as the brittleness of shoots. They 

 are indeed liable to suffer from severing of the roots in 

 particular. 



I have, however, had opportunity to practise knife pruning 

 and succeeded in getting more handsome trees than in break- 

 ing shoots. 



