. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Suitable for Spraying Trees, Vines, Shrubbery, Plants and Geurdens. NO. 135 PACIFIC NORTHWEST DISTRIBUTORS BUY FROM THE LOCAL MITCHELL DEALER Pulls 3 Plows on 20% Grade Will work on 40'v hillside We can make delivery now. Write for Catalogue and Price. Best 'i^mmf Tractors. Western Farquhar Machinery Co. Corner East Salmon and Water Portland, Oregon BETTER FRUIT Planting and Care Prune Orchard Continued from page 5. .shoot out, they should all be stripped down with the exception of the three top buds. Leave these to mature; th
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Suitable for Spraying Trees, Vines, Shrubbery, Plants and Geurdens. NO. 135 PACIFIC NORTHWEST DISTRIBUTORS BUY FROM THE LOCAL MITCHELL DEALER Pulls 3 Plows on 20% Grade Will work on 40'v hillside We can make delivery now. Write for Catalogue and Price. Best 'i^mmf Tractors. Western Farquhar Machinery Co. Corner East Salmon and Water Portland, Oregon BETTER FRUIT Planting and Care Prune Orchard Continued from page 5. .shoot out, they should all be stripped down with the exception of the three top buds. Leave these to mature; they will give you the foundation from which to start. After the close of the first year the three branches that were left to mature should be topped back to four or five inches, according to the vigor of the tree, but always leaving the bud at the end of the limb on the top and on the inner side so that when this develops into a limb the tendency will be upward and inward. In later years when the tree begins to produce heavily this will act as a brace to keep it from spreading too much. At the close of the second year prune off all except the one shoot going upward on each of the three branches left the previous year. Prune these back to six or eight inches. This may seem a waste of time and tree energy, but it must be remembered now that we are laying the foundation for a prune tree to bear heavily in after years. The third year two branches may be left at the end of each of the three perviously men- tioned. Prune these back to about six- teen inches. This will give you at the close of the third year a tree with six main body branches. I will say here that most generally there will be one or two of these that will not develop, .so in reality we have a tree of four or five body branches. The next year two or three may be allowed, but cut- ting them back to twenty or twent.\ four inches, according to the vigor of the tree. At the close of the fourth year the body is formed, and f
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