Show i j I I PRUNING TREES THEE it w nr i ORDER JF To The Salt Lake Herald Now is about the time to commence pruning not slaughtering slaught trees To ac accomplish accomplish the slaughtering all you need is Ja a saw san and an ax and start in any anyway anyway way and every way and you can see seethe seethe seethe the result of such uch work ev every ry spring in dilapidated and ruined trees On the other hand hanft if you want ant to prune prun your our trees which Is more or less a anece necessity nece you will first reflect over you want to prune your trees for tor what object oWe t you have in in view vIe and work vork v ork accordingly according Pruning should be bedone bedone bedone done and is done for fol several s Veral objects any airy one O of which may be the main mainone mainon mainone one on the others are merely merel auxiliary yet are to be bd kept in view all ll the time First pruning may I t b bon ft done to shape the t ties and nd give It proper form Second To relieve it o excessive growth g of wood Third To increase Its vitality or woo 1 Fourth To cause qu ett It jf t tree to increase the Ize ze of its fruit t I N A AI I Fifth To prevent lt tb hs Jr growing It an height h Ith and make inke m ke it easier e to gath ath its fruits t t Sixth To opan Its Jt n h sun and I air and make it to pray and andI I I keep clean H HI i i iI Seventh To make mal if easy to I cultivate the t ground around nd It id Eighth To l O it I Iti dead dMd and anji I broken two ej 1 branches cross one ne another aI Jh and rub remove one and sometimes o Umes both oth othI smooth off any d fd stumps tump and I thereby prevent the totted tree tt i from m becom becoming i ing lug hollow and rotten This r ls I t should always be kepi JePt kei fn In view vi viI I Ninth Cat down all dead or half I I dead trees t es wherever found Tenth in pruning branches OWl over j one and a half hatt inched 1 ches moke a small t n with the soy irom from below say laY j I or of an inch I j or more moe according o dIng to limb It Itt ItI t I saves the and spoiling of i the trunk or heavy and should b be Cut elo 3 to the trunk or branch Cover all aU large larg wounds oun 8 with common paint Eleventh In pruning young trees if the first year growth planting lees floes not exceed two feat growth of branches brancher branc leave lesve them thorn alone aIon If they j exceed giat t at cut them T baek ack leaving i 1 them ghoul eighteen ehl t n s in length out from the main stem If more j j branches come out On Pu On one ne sid sido even it up by cutting same of the th surplus branches off clean in to t t the stem stepi Twelfth the ha second years growth in a similar manner leaving eighteen inches in hes to two f feet of second i I year Yea growth and ria trim ore off the excessive x sive growth gro tb whether it He lf f tv g numbers 1 or in misshapen n limbs not noTt forgetting to take off orr ore ote branch and d whenever i i two rub ru b t taking n always the 1 weakest of pt the two a t I |