Article: Profits within reach; Dwarf apple trees mean bigger benefits.(LOCAL NEWS)

Byline: Donna Boynton

The following correction was published Oct. 5, 2007:

Because of a reporter's error, Gerard T. Beirne was incorrectly identified as the owner of Bolton Orchards in a story and photo caption in yesterday's Telegram & Gazette. Mr. Beirne owns Berlin Orchards.

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Maurice Tougas farms the sun.

Mr. Tougas stood between two rows of apple trees - not the big sprawling trees one typically thinks of - but thin-trunked, narrow, triangular-shaped trees held tall by a wire-and-post trellis system.

"They're shaped almost like Christmas trees," said Mr. Tougas, who has been planting dwarf ...

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