Show FEW BENEFITS OF THINNING importance of thinning as means of producing the maximum number of first class apples an experiment made recently by the utah station calls attention to the importance of thinning of first class apples eight year old ben trees with the fruit thinned to a maximum distance of four inches apart gave a net increase per tree of as compared with fruit the jonathans showed a net increase of 30 cents per tree the same jona than trees thinned in the same manner in 1912 gave a net increase of 71 cents per tree over trees in practice the cost 0 thin nang appears to be offset by the reduced cost in sorting when tho fruit Is packed |