LAZY TREES 
for budding purposes, of these heavily yielding trees lies 
in the transforming of the drone trees into good pro¬ 
ducers. By the keeping of the production record, the 
drone has been located. It is shown not to be filling the 
number of boxes it should fill. It is occupying orchard 
space for which it is not giving adequate returns. If it 
were let alone, it would probably continue to do so for 
fifty years. 
So the orchardist goes to one of the trees that is a 
proved producer. He gets choice buds from heavily 
yielding limbs. He brings those buds to the tree that is 
a loafer. He grafts them on its sturdy limbs three or four 
feet from the ground. There they attach themselves to 
the growing tree and put forth shoots. When these shoots 
are vigorous, the orchardist, comes along and saws off the 
old tops of the tree. All its vigor is then directed into the 
grafted shoots of the heavily yielding tree. They grow 
and prosper. In a few years they are yielding abun¬ 
dantly, as did the mother from which they were taken. 
The drone tree that did not pay its way has been con¬ 
verted into a heavy yielder. 
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