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“Personally, Bill, l think that one of the major problems that is likely to be involved with equipment that would merely prune apple trees similar to a hedge or cut off everything that extends past a certain point, is that this would have a tendency to stimulate mule tail type growth on the ends of each terminal cut back and that the mass effect after a year or two might be to have a heavy mantle of growth shading the inner portions of the tree. It might be, How evtp, that a person could get awav with it once every few years with more conventional type punin-? during the intervening years. While completely mechanical pro: ers and completely mechanic: !, harvesters and similar equipment rvtv not be availabje at the present time I do believe that such equipment is definitely in the offering and that fruit growers would do well in attempting to anticipate mechanization when th'1 err?1''>'h new plantings and try to establish orchards that would leH selves to increased mechan z * *1. I suppose it is something !' e ’he old saying, “the future belongs to those who prepare for it.’’
"I am sorry that this letter b«fcame <o long and involved. You have tr'-rhed upon a general area that extremely fasemating to me. I hope we can discuss some of these points in more detail sometime in the near future."
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