Roosevelt Standard | 1916-08-23 | Page 3 | Object of Thinning Fruit

OBJECT OF THINNING FRUIT attention Is called to much neglected important duty grapes in paper sacks thinning is so BO much neglected and yet so important that it is well to call attention to it it if one has any doubts upon this matter let him take two trees of the same variety of peach or pear and from one remove halt or three fourths of 0 the fruit and upon the other let all the fruit grow when the fruit is ripe market the crop of each tree keeping a correct account of all the expenses and see aich which tree has paid the most one bushel of choice fruit carefully packed in clean halt half bushel baskets will frequently sell for more than two or even three bushels of ordinary fruit of the same kind pears peaches apples aud and grapes grown for the best markets should be thinned when fruit Is one third grown the trees properly sprayed in season and the trees kept kepi cultivated or mulched for exhibition remove fully halt half the fruit from the trees water freely irl in dry weather grapes should be in paper sacks