342 
Pruning Old Trees for Fruit 
Yield 
Preventing Sour Sap 
Plan of Training Young Trees 
Rule For Cutting Back ..... 
Systematic Pruning Prime 
Factor in 
Top and Roots to Correspond 
Trees, 
Accounting With Each One. 
A Few Observations on the 
Conduct of 
A Clinic of 
Average Annual Yield of 
Healthy Trees 
A Bunch of Poor Ben Davis 
Croppers 
Are the Unit of Management, 
Not the Orchard 
An Erratic Bearer 
Babcock Test for Efficiency of 
‘Drones,’ ‘Robbers’ 
Do Unproductive Ones in an 
Orchard Come From Sim- 
ilar Parent Trees? 
Divergence in Character of 
Trees in an Orchard Vary 
Through Difference in Soil, 
Food, Water and Other Fac- 
tors 
Does not Always Pay to Top 
Work Unprofitable Ones.. 
Eliminating Unp r o fi t a b 1 e 
Ones 
Fertilizer Treatment for Un- 
profitable Ones 
5,000,000 Robber Cows in U. 
S. How Many Orchard 
Trees? 
Girdling to Induce Produc- 
tiveness 
Healthy Trees; Poor Small 
Fruit ; Shallow Soil on 
Rock 
Inducing Fruitfulnes by Gird- 
ling, Pruning, Fertilizing.. 
Let the Orchardist Treat 
Them as the Dairyman 
Does Cows 
“Maintain a Sympathetic Ac- 
quaintance With Each 
Tree’’ 142 
Many are Being Kept at a 
Loss 140 
Not All Pay for Their Keep. 138 
“Pedigree” in the Apple Or- 
chard 141 
Pulling Out Thrifty Ones Re- 
quires Nerve 140 
Relative Profit of 140 
Restoring Sub-Normal Trees 
to Vigor 141 
Records of Unprofitable Trees 
of Profitable Varieties 140 
Time Required to Restore 
Unhealthy Trees 141 
Trial Shows that 1/3 of the 
Trees Yielded 2 /3 of the 
Profit 140 
Unprofitable Varieties De- 
tected 139 
Unprofitable Varieties 139 
Uprofitable Ones, Their Elim- 
ination 138 
“Woodman Spare That Tree,” 
Unsuitable Sentiment For 
an Apple Orchard 140 
Trial Grounds, For Verification 35 
Tribble, Claud, D., The Persian 
Walnut in the United States. .. 120 
Trinidad Islands, Crops and 
Methods of Culture 84 
Tropical Fruits, in the Philip- 
pines 91 
Tuttle, A. G., Importer of Rus- 
sian Varieties 37 
Underpruning, Danger of 163 
U. S. D. A., Commendation . . . 284 
Utah, Expt. Sta., Commendation 284 
Vaccinium caespitosum 98 
In Alaska 82 
Microphyllum 98 
Ovalifolium 98 
Farvifolium 98 
Van Deman, H. E., 
In Discussion 142, 144, 152 
Lauds Canada 77 
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