Show pruning apple orchard Is good job for winter A cold weather job Is the pruning of the apple orchard most of this work nork should be done when the trees are dormant pleasant weather Is needed so those lays days which are suited to the work should be utilized to get the apple trees into shape for the next seasons bearing young trees which fire are kept in shape by yearly need but little atte attention tion occasionally it will be found that there are too many brandies branches and it will be necessary to remove a few among the older trees which are of bearing age it is usually advisable to do little more than a light trimming and thinning it does docs not hurt to cut out entire branches when there are too many let the sunlight in the apples will be better next year even if there are not as many any in number it Is not always good practice to cut back branches as tills Is sometimes likely to induce several sprouts to start better cut out the branch altogether it is all right to trim off part par t of tile the branches when they are so thick as to keep the suits buus rays from reaching all parts of tile the tree |