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Show UTILITY OF FRUIT THINNING Cost la of Minor Importance Compared With Results Obtained Instrument Instru-ment Better Than Hand. The cost of thinning is of minor Importance Im-portance as compared with the results obtained. At the Colorado experiment experi-ment station it was found that an average of 750 apples per hour were thinned from the tree, making 7,500 apples for a day of ten hours. Allowing Allow-ing $2 per day for a man's wages the cost of thinning a bearing tree was 64 cents. The thinning should be done as soon after the "June drop" as possible, for experiments show that tt is much better for a tree and remaining re-maining apples. It has also been demonstrated that thinning is much aiore easily done with an instrument than by hand. In summarizing the work that has been done at the various state experi-nieut experi-nieut stations, C. C. Vincent, associate associ-ate professor of horticulture at the Idaho station, draws these conclusions: conclu-sions: That thinning pays In money returns the first year. The earlier the thinning can be done the better will be the returns. The best results are obtained by leaving the apples from nine to ten inches apart. The systematic and annual uniform thinning does much toward securing an annual crop. |