. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipi6 BETTER FRUIT Page IJ the opening blossoms began to show. Three different methods of girdling were practiced as follows: (1) A strip of bark varying from one-quarter to one-half inch wide was taken out of the tree about two feet above the ground by cutting around (he tree and taking out a piece of bark six or eight inches long. About an inch strip was then left on or skipped and another piece of bark six or eight inches long and one-half inch wide was taken out. This process was continued until the trunk of the tree had been treated all the way round. The wou
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipi6 BETTER FRUIT Page IJ the opening blossoms began to show. Three different methods of girdling were practiced as follows: (1) A strip of bark varying from one-quarter to one-half inch wide was taken out of the tree about two feet above the ground by cutting around (he tree and taking out a piece of bark six or eight inches long. About an inch strip was then left on or skipped and another piece of bark six or eight inches long and one-half inch wide was taken out. This process was continued until the trunk of the tree had been treated all the way round. The wounds were painted at once with white lead and raw linseed oil. (2) This method was similar to the first except the strips between the cuts were left five or six inches wide instead of one inch in width. (3) This method consisted of removing a series of diamond-shaped section of bark from the trunk about two feet above the base. These sections were continued around the tree, leav- ing a strip of bark about six or eight inches wide between the wounds. The sections of bark removed were eight or ten inches long up and down and about three or four inches in width at the widest place. (4) A half dozen or more trees in the same block were left untreated. Last year all the trees that were girdled according to method one aver- aged from 18 to 2,5 a tree. The trees girdled according to methods two and three bore but very little fruit. In fact they were no more fruitful than the ungirdled trees. The results this year showed up jusL as they did last year. The trees girdled according to the first method were heavily loaded with fruit, while the other trees had large leaves and made much twig growth, but set very little fruit. Again, there was no more fruit on these trees than there was on the untreated trees. It is interesting to note that in all the girdling work carried on by Mr. Alter he has not damaged a single tree. The wounds were carefully made with clean, sharp tools and the
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