Training The Trees

It will only be necessary to train the limbs in seven or eight feet all

round to be able to double the number of trees to the acre. Then train

the trees skyward and increase the number of nut-bearing boughs, and the

yield will be increased accordingly. If the nuts on the higher branches

fill as well as on the lower, the tree can not be made to grow too high,

because we have no violent storms to throw down the trees, and the nuts

are self-gathering. These and many other valuable and interesting

problems in the industry are to be worked out.



According to Prof. Lewis, who is good authority, a later and better

method is to cut the young tree back to 4 feet and make it throw out

three or four laterals. When these laterals are fully grown, bind them

up in a bundle one or two feet diameter with soft strands of rope. In

the dormant season cut these laterals back to about two feet. This will

multiply the branches. Cut back the new growths again the next year, and

so on; this will greatly increase the nut-bearing boughs and will train

the tree upward. This seems to be the most sensible method of pruning

yet proposed.