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Show GOOD PRACTICE WITH APPLES Restricting Production and Partially Controlling Distribution of Fruits Is of Importance. The elimination of imperfect specimens speci-mens of apples, thereby restricting the production and partially controlling the distribution of fruit of the trees, by thinning, is, without doubt, a very important factor in successful apple growing. Certain varieties of apples possess the peculiar characteristic of alternating alternat-ing a season of fruiting with a sea- Total Product (21 Apples) of Apples Under Two Inches in Diameter From Sixty-Two Thinned Trees Twenty-Eight Twenty-Eight Pounds Were Produced on One Unthinned Tree Nearby, Being the Same Age and Variety. son of comparative rest and recuperation1; recupera-tion1; but there are other varieties which, by timely and thorough thinning thin-ning of the crop, may be induced to bear almost annually, providing soil conditions are favorable and the season sea-son propitious. The time of season in which the thinning should be done is a factor which largely determines the result of such work. It is safe to assert that the earlier in the season the thinning be done, after the little apnles have attained a size sufficient to enable the workman to distinguish defects and deformities and to assist him in rec: ognizing the specimens which are less well nourished, the more satisfactory, efficacious and profitable will be the work. Late thinning will only serve to lighten the weight of the trees, no considerable benefit being derived in increasing the size of individual apples or in enabling the trees to conserve their energy in time to prepare for crop production the following .season. |
