Show MEDIUM HEADED treed it Is the beet for if the orchard Is to ba well cultivated ten or 15 years ago we heading our apple trees very toy p as low we could aced them but since that wo found it impassible to give our orchard clean or rather intensive cultivation wan the trees that nay we grad bally working them higher we would now call them medium height are heading them an low ft we can give them thorough alon and pass under them with esaias and this is becoming the practice this vicinity at this time write n cumberland county correspond ent of the farmers review I 1 trinh there is very little in high or low head as to borers high heads are e little more apt to sun scald unless the trees be set leaned a little to the southwest probably the high headed trees would lose more apples in a storm than low beaded ones but the low headed ones sometimes thresh the ground and knock some of the fruit off and the limbs touching the ground are apt to have poor and bad colored fruit would advise to keep the heads aa low as you can to cultivate under aa you can do a better job of spraying on a low head than on a high headed tree and do it more rapidly also easier to keep caterpillars or other in sects off low fruit trees and much aas ler to gather the fruit we aim to keep our tree heads as low as possible to have them so they do not interfere with cultivation and we call our orchards as they are now medium headed and have gotten them as near right as we can put them and cultivate |