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those with long stems or trunks. When the 

 head is low and the crop is heavy, the limbs 

 will often rest upon the ground, and this serves 

 to rather brace the tree m time of storms. If 

 the trunk is long the limbs will sway back and 

 forth in the gale and not only break themselves 

 but cause some of the under branches to break 

 also by their dropping down upon them with 

 their load of fruit. 



The windfalls are much fewer and are more 

 marketable where the trees are headed low. 

 The fruit that drops, only has a short fall. The 

 difference in the wind falls and their value 

 alone should be enough to encourage the prac- 

 tice of low heads. It sometimes happens that 

 windfalls from low headed trees may be dis- 

 posed of at a fair price. While those that have 

 dropped from the high heads on the hard 

 ground are bursted or bruised so that they are 

 unfit for market at any price, and must be 

 hauled out or disposed of at an additional cost 



Many growers fail to realize the damage 

 that may result from the ladder marks made in 

 gathering the fruit. The higher the heads of 

 the trees the more apt we are to injure their 

 limbs by the use of heavy ladders. 



Where the trees are headed low it will take 

 much less cultivation than where the whole sur- 

 facef is exposed, as in the case of the high 



