. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 30 BETTER FRUIT March Ridley, Houlding & Co, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON Points to remember when consigning apples to the London Market Specialists in Apples CABLE ADDRESS: BOTANIZING, LONDON LESLIE BUTLER. President TRUMAN BUTLER, Vice President C. H. VAUGHAN, Cashier Member Federal Reserve System Butler Banking Company HOOD RIVER, OREGON Capital . $100, 4% Interest Paid in our Savings Department THE OLDEST BANK IN HOOD RIVER VAXLEY COMPANY Printers • Binders Unexcelled facilities for the production of Catalogues, Book- lets, Stationery, Po
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 30 BETTER FRUIT March Ridley, Houlding & Co, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON Points to remember when consigning apples to the London Market Specialists in Apples CABLE ADDRESS: BOTANIZING, LONDON LESLIE BUTLER. President TRUMAN BUTLER, Vice President C. H. VAUGHAN, Cashier Member Federal Reserve System Butler Banking Company HOOD RIVER, OREGON Capital . $100, 4% Interest Paid in our Savings Department THE OLDEST BANK IN HOOD RIVER VAXLEY COMPANY Printers • Binders Unexcelled facilities for the production of Catalogues, Book- lets, Stationery, Posters and Advertising Matter. Write us for prices and specifications. Out-of-town orders executed promptly and accurately. We print BETTER FRUIT. CORNER FIRST AND OAK STREETS PORTLAND, OREGON. light. The method of dealing with this problem is obvious. Other old trees continue to produce good crops each year, but the bearing is rapidly shifting from the center of the tree to its upper and outer portions so that great strain is put upon the limbs and crotches by the load of fruit. There still are spurs in the interior of the tree, but they are weak and unproductive. The problem is to make them productive again and thus to shift a part of the load to a location where it can be held better and thinned, sprayed and picked more eco- nomically. No one pruning practice, as, for instance, thinning-out or heading- back is the means of solving all these problems. It may take thinning-out alone to handle one of them, heading- back alone to handle another, a certain combination of the two to handle a third, and a still different combination to handle the fourth. The thing to re- member is that one series of results is reasonably certain to follow the one practice and that a quite different series of results will follow the other practice. The wrong pruning practice for any of the problems presented is apt to make conditions worse rather than to im- prove them. As a kind of practical summa
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