224 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



Pruning to Remove Insect Infested 



Parts. — It frequently happens that after the 

 orchard is planted that the trees are found to 

 be infested with scale. In order to treat these 

 trees — which consist of spraying — successfully 

 and economically, it is necessary to reduce the 

 size of the top as much as can be done without 

 injury to the tree. It sometimes becomes neces- 

 sary to prune such trees severely. This prun- 

 ing consists not only of the removal of the en- 

 tire limbs wherever they can be spared 

 throughout the top, but often the shortening in 

 of all the branches, thus ^reducing the wood 

 surface to be treated, thereby cheapening the 

 operation. The shortening of the branches has 

 lowered the top, thereby enabling the work to 

 be done more ejfficiently, and unless spraying 

 for scale is done very thoroughly the trees can- 

 not be freed from the pest. 



Pruning to Bring Into Manageable 



Shape. — There are orchards that have been 

 neglected and after many years the owner at- 

 tempts to bring this sprawling, or that high 

 top tree into manageable shape. This should 

 be carefully considered by the grower before 

 undertaken. It may mean heavy loss of wood, 

 and the same result will follow as in the case 

 of pruning to renew bearing wood. In fact the 



