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Show Thinnincr of Fruit Is Advocated By Horticulturalists It sometimes causes the fruit men great alarm to see someone come in their orchard and pick off .one half of their fruit and dump it on the ground. If the fruit men ! could make themse!vesdo this, , they would not only have just as great a yield but would have a marketable fruit, horticultral specialists spe-cialists declare. Fruit should be thinned so it is . spaced at least four inches apart and of course soil conditions and moisture will determine the amount . oi fruit that can be matured on the trees. It takes considerable leaf surface to manufacture food: to grow the fleshy part and the seeds or stone. By thinning, the amount of seeds or stones will be reduced in the fruit and the food part of the fruit would be increased. increas-ed. In these days marketing is a big problem and the highest quality qual-ity product is necessary for the sale of fruits and vegetables, right now is the time thinning should be done as the June dron is just past and the fruit men will do well , to consider it this. |