82 Agricultural Experiment Station^ Ithaca, N. Y. 



274 barrels Xo. I (822 bushels) at $1.-^5 $369 90 



100 barrels No. 2 (300 bushels) at 75 cents 75 00 



60 bushels at 25 cents 15 00 



100 bushels at 30 cents 30 00 



220 bushels made into cider at 20 cents 44 00 



300 bushels cider apples at 5 cents 15 00 



1802 bushels $548 90 



" The reason for the great proportion of cider apples is the heavy 

 crop and the drouth, rendering it impossible for all the fruit to 

 mature. Thinning would probably have paid. The crop was 

 remarkably free from worms. Old apple buyers declared that they 

 had never seen so few wormy apples in a crop. This freedom from 

 insects was due to sprayings of Paris green. * * * We used a half- 

 pound of Paris green to a kerosene barrel of water. In one instance 

 we used three-fourths of a pound, but the liquid injured the foliage. 



" Permanent sod (without fertilizing) is an injury to the orchard. 

 This has been proved in the experience of nearly every successful 

 orchardist. It is forcibly illustrated in the instance of the old Col- 

 lege orchard. In the earlier experiments conducted by Dr. Beal, 

 the same fact was emphasized. For some years he kept a part of 

 the trees in sod, others were cultivated thoroughly, while still others 

 were cultivated at var^ang distances from the body of the tree. 

 Even as early as 1874 he found that ' trees in grass made less growth, 

 looked yellow in foliage, and bore smaller fruit and apparently less 

 of it.' In 1875 he observed that ' the evidences looked more and 

 more strongly every year against the propriety of leaving trees, in 

 our section, in grass. They have stood the severe winters no 

 better; they have borne no better; the apples are smaller ; the trees 

 grow more slowly ; a greater proportion of trees have died than of 

 those cultivated each year. So marked have been the results that 

 we have plowed up about half that part of the orchard which was 

 left in grass.' " 



SUMMAEY 



Till. 



Feed. 



Prune. 



Spray. 



