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Drastic? How come? We have 77,470 trees above 30 years of age and of these about 26 thousand are over 40 years of age.well past their peak of productive potential. Then too, what about the prices you receive for those off-brand varieties? Weialthys, bon urns, old time delicious, Ben Davis, Ganos, etc., etc. What about those staymen._.oId time varieties that don’t color up_split at the slightest changes in soil moisture level, seem to have a hankering for water core? If yoiu have ’em nice they will sell—but quality sta'Tnen is a mighty big IF. We have over 53,000 trees of such off varieties that fetch lower prices, cost just as much to prune, spray and harvest! It’s likje culling 10% of your cow herd, yet increasing your profits 40%.
If you hive such varieties an a good site, of trees too old to produce apples of quality, why not get rid of ’em foi* fuel and replant with a newer, red sport of Delicious or York.—or winesap? * Look what Jim Bill Fletcher has done. See pictures at top of page. Billy Kilby bought an old orchard_now really has something from nothing. Ned Johnson has done a lot of planting of good new varieties on new sites carefully selected and has revived an old site by saying out the old nq account trees dose to the’ground and interplanting with new popular varieties.
There arej any number of ways of getting tjhe job done—what’s best in one qrchard may not work
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