EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



FKUIT-TESTING AT THE SOUTH HAVEN SUB-STATION. 



By T. T. Lyon — Bulletin No. 67, Horticultural Department. 



In the spring of 1888 the Board of Agriculture authorized, an arrange- 

 ment with T. T. Lyon, by which the station secured a report upon 

 the fruits growing on his extensive experimental plantation at South 

 Haven. 



The report was issued as Bulletin No. 55, and was so well received that 

 at the urgent solicitation of the fruitgrowers of the "fruit belt" it was 

 determined to place the work on a more permanent basis. 



The people of South Haven donated a tract of land adjoining that of 

 President Lyon, and future plantings of trial fruits will be made on it. As 

 some time must elapse before results can be obtained from the station 

 trees, the use of the Lyon tract was secured, and from the plants growing 

 thereon the following report was prepared by President Lyon, whose 

 services we were fortunate enough to secure to carry on the work. 



L. R. Taft, 

 Ageicultural College, Mich., ) Horticulturist 



October 16, 1890. 



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To Prof. L. E. Taft, Horticulturist, Experiment Station: 



Sir — The fruiting season of the strawberry, at this place, for the current 

 year, being now past, the following report is submitted:" 



The plat from which the following particulars have been deduced, was 

 planted, in the spring of 1889, with primary reference to the growth of 

 plants and fruit for sale, it being at the time deemed improbable that 

 occasion would occur for their employment for experimental purposes. 



Arrangements having been subsequently effected for such purpose, ten 

 feet in length were measured off upon a matted row of each variety prior 

 to the digging of plants for the spring sale. These several reserved plats 

 were reduced to a common width of eight inches; and, in case of a light 

 stand of plants, the lack was supplied by increasing the length. 



On each "picking day" these several plats were each picked separately, 

 and the date and weight, in ounces, of each picking recorded, the sum of 



