Show pruning helps quality of fruit profits depend on apples of uniform size and good color pruning as a part of the management program in an apple orchard does not always increase the number of bushels to the tree but it does make it a difference in the quantity which will grade out as first class apples profits profit from an Ori orchard hard the profits from an apple orchard always depend on the number of baskets boxes or barrels which contain apples of uniform size well colored and free from blemishes says 11 II it extension horticulturist at the north carolina state college thick bushy trees afford protection to insects and diseases and shield them from contact with spray materials the highest percentage ov cull apples Is nearly always harvested from tant part of the tree which has not been thinned or Is left apple trees of this kind should be opened up so that it will be easy to cover the fruit and leaves in all parts of the tree cost of pruning As to cost of pruning mr bonger says two orchards in the brushy mountains one containing trees and the other trees spent and respectively a year during the past two years the trees in the first orchard were from eight to twenty years of age and the latter hitter from six to fourteen years old these costs cover the labor in hauling the brush from the orchard as well as the actual work of pruning the main object in pruning a bearing apple tree Is to maintain a well balanced top and the even distribution of fruit spurs in the young tree the purpose Is to develop a well bal alced top that will fruit uniformly says mr air |