Show the proper time to prune the intermountain fruit grower prunes at leisure but luckily this conforms rather closely to the proper season when looked at from a physiological point of view dr leon A batchelor of the utah agricultural college advises that the dormant season incites wood growth while pruning in the growing season promotes fruitfulness and since trees in a semiarid semi arid climate tend to over bear it is logical for us to prune largely during the dormant season if this work is done in february march and april the wound heals over very rapidly as growth starts in the spring 9 there is less likelihood of injury from the wounds drying and causing winter killing than when pruned earlier in the season the work can be done with much greater ease case and pleasure when there is a light snow on the ground than by leaving the work to be done later when the orchard is muddy making it laborious labo rions to get about from tree to tree |