EXPERIMENTS IX ORCHARD CULTURE. 



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carefully renewed as required, the trees are liable to injury. The 

 best treatment of such a rocky hillside as is shown in figure 8, 

 is to fence off a portion of the orchard each year, turn in hogs 

 and let them thoroughly work the soil. An added advantage of 

 this treatment is the destruction of diseased and infested fruit. 

 The testimony of orchardists who have practiced this treatment 

 is, invariably, to the effect that the injury by the apple maggot 

 (Trypeta) is greatly reduced. 



Figure S. An orchard not easily cultivated. 



YIELD OE ERUIT, I902. 



The question of supreme importance, after getting a satis- 

 factory growth of trees, is the quantity and quality of the 

 product. As already noted, the present season is the first that 

 the trees in question have fruited to any extent and, as might 

 be expected, there was great variation in the amount and char- 

 acter of the fruit. The largest amount on any tree was about 

 tw'o barrels, and the quantity varied from that amount to half a 

 peck. The follow^ing table gives a summarized statement of the 

 yield on different plots, together with the number of trees pro- 

 ducing fruit. 



