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Show proper: method of priming 'To Get Bast and Quickest Results Apple Ap-ple TroA Should Be Seven Years Old Before Cut Tho common method of pruning ap-plo ap-plo trees la to thin out tho top nnd center of the tree to lot In tti sunshine sun-shine und: air. All tho Btnall fpoblo-lonklng fpoblo-lonklng limbs, and fruit spurs nro carefully care-fully cut out of tho center iiatll tho limbs lofto to form tho treo havo for tho first fehroo as four foot a. cloan. bare, hooivpolo appearance, wtth no bunting wood h the centur of tho troe, write J. C; 15. Honton.. la. Farmers' Farm-ers' Review. To got the- ocas and qulcicotrt results an applo trc should havo no pruning until flvo to seven years olJ. except taking out savvsprouts ami' cutting back tho- long limbs to Induce" a short stocky growth. At about th ago o0 flvo or 4Men years a thonough. systematic sys-tematic pruning; should boglvon, cut ting out only limbs throo-toerths of nn Inch and' up In diameter, leaving enough of' the- larger Umoa to fowm tho heatU op lop of tho tro. All small straggly limbs of feoble- growth and all fruit spurs, especially In tho aen ter of the tree, should be left Thoso nro tho limbs and spurs that will hear tho tlrst crop of fruit lflonce romovod those teult limbs and spurs aro novor renewed, but tholr place Is filled with Bap sprouts that are an overlastlns nuisance and have to bo removed yearly. Whenever you remove fruit limbs, which aro nlwaya of a feeble growth, or fruit spurs from young trace, you are taking that much from STTntcpRuatn. I " Pole Shears. your first twor-or throe crops of apples. Ono seldom goes Into a bearing orchnrd but he finds great vacaut places four to six feet In diameter In tho center of nearly every tree that novor has nn! never will produce an apple. This vncancy Ib where tho first two or threo cropB of apples should bo grown and such cutting out delays tho bearing period two or throe yoare. Every ono attempting to prune a young orchard should know that it 'takos n thrifty, vigorous growing (young treo threo to flvo yearB to do-velop do-velop a fruit bud. Without such knpwlodgo ho cannot appreciate tho 'valuo of fruit spurs and limbs that j show a tendency to early fruiting. j Until an orchard Is ten to fourteen yoars of ago It Is seldom necessary to thin out the small fruit limbs nnd fruit npurs, bnt nftcr tho bearing habit Is onco established nnd the trees get an nttundanco of bcnrlng wood It becomes nccosBnry to thin 6ut nil through tho treo. Trees should be headed low and kept low y-y cutting out tho tops for convenience In spraying. Too many largo limbs should bo avofdod by Ju-dlcfotiB Ju-dlcfotiB pruning tho first going over nnd' at all times the troe should bo kept thin nmf sufficiently open-, that all npplos got rho color and sfxe- that Is fiiarfiornrlHCfK nf tho variety. When ever trn orchard trader good CTlthrntlon produces npplcs of under size and off color tho, pruning; should bo looked nftcr |