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cooking and eating apple but its color is against it for present day 

 market; Baldwin, a profitable odd-year bearer in good locations; 

 Northern Spy, grows well in Michigan, bnt has the fault of being a 

 long time coming into bearing; King, trees short lived. 



Varieties such as the Jonathan and Grimes Golden grow rather 

 small in Michigan, but do well under favorable conditions. While 

 Ben Davis is quite popular with some persons, it is grown so much 

 better in other parts of the country that we cannot well compete 

 on the market. 



Winter Banana, one of the newer varieties, has proven very well 

 here. It is sometimes a little ill-shaped and somewhat subject to the 

 scab and Bordeaux injury, but it is a variety that we can grow well 

 in this state. 



For dessert and fancy market Primate (large, yellow, soft). Early 

 Joe, Fanny, Garden Eoyal, Gravenstein, Golden Sweet, Chenango, 

 Fameuse, Fameuse Sucre, Mcintosh, Wagener, Jonathan, Spitzenberg, 

 Red Canada, Winter Banana, Northern Spy, Roxbury Russet and 

 Grimes Golden are recommended. - 



Primate, Garden Royal and Roxbury Russet are not very good 

 looking apples but they have quality and are very good for home and 

 dessert uses. In the above two lists the varieties are mentioned in 

 the order of their season, the earliest coming first. 



CULTURAL METHODS. 



The test of the comparative values of cultivation and sod mulch 

 was well under way this year. The test is being tried on peaches, 

 plums (both European and Japanese), and apples. Each block is 

 divided into four plots; viz. sod, mulched with straw or some non- 

 manurial mulch; sod mulched with coarse manure; cultivation and 

 cover crop, being cultivated until August first, after which the cover 

 crop is sown; cultivation without a cover crop. The sod in the sod mulch 

 plots is clover and the trees were thoroly mulched with the clover cut 

 from between the trees and in addition in one case with coarse ma- 

 nure and in the other with straw. Enough was put on to mulch 

 them to a radius of three feet from the trees. There seemed to be 

 no decided difference in the plots this year. The drought had no 

 more apparent effect on the mulched plots than it did on the culti- 

 vated. In fact, if there was any difference it was in favor of the 

 mulched plots. The trees in this case made a more thrifty growth in 

 the mulched plots than in the cultivated ones. All of the trees were 

 set out" in 1907 and were cultivated last year. It will take several years 

 to get definite results. 



TESTS OF SCALE REMEDIES. 



In addition to a home-made lime-sulfur solution, the following rem- 

 edies for San Jose scale were tested this year: 



Rex Lime-sulfur Solution, manufactured by the Rex Company of 

 Omaha, Nebraska, an amber fluid with some sediment in the bottom 

 after standing. This is recommended to be mixed at the rate of one 

 part of the solution to eleven of w^ater for winter spraying. 



