How to bear much fruit and avoid the burn pile
Fruit trees on large commercial farms are shaped and trained from saplings to meet the needs of the harvester in later years. This is an ongoing process that must start when the wood is green and pliable because after a few years there is no bending wood that has become hard. Though this is costly and time consuming it has been proven that it saves the farmer labor costs and medical bills that may accrue when pickers once climbed tall ladders harvesting large trees. Now much of the tree can be harvested from the ground or from a short ladder which also helps keep the fruit from being bruised during the process.
This is much like teaching small children good habits and social skills. Once they have become set in their ways it is very difficult for them to unlearn bad habits. Antisocial behavior costs society because there is a spillover affect. Many innocent people may be harmed and ultimately everyone has to pay the price for reckless behavior. Insurance costs go up and more police and first responders have to be hired to deal with the fruit of unruly people. Churches and social workers often find themselves at their wits end trying to help people function in a civilized society.
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