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The average price received for the apples for the ten years was 

 $2.60 per barrel for all the barrelled stock sold and 72 cents per 

 barrel for the evaporator and cider stock. 



The balance sheet is as follows: Subtracting $1.29, the cost of a 

 barrel of apples, from $2.60, the amount received, a net profit of 

 $1.31 per barrel remains for firsts and seconds. Multiplying by 79, 

 the number of barrels per acre, gives $103.49 as the profit per acre 

 for firsts and seconds. Subtracting 72 cents from 93 cents, gives 21 

 cents as the difference between average cost of production and 

 average selling price of culls. Multiplying 37.6, the number of bar- 

 rels of culls per acre, by 21, gives a loss of $7.89 per acre on the culls, 

 leaving the average net profit per acre in this orchard for the past 

 ten years $95.60; add to this the $25 interest on the investment and 

 we have $120.60 net, or 24.12 per ct. on $500, as the annual ten-year 

 return from this orchard and the money invested in it. 



New or noteworthy fruits. — The New York Agricultural Experiment 

 Station attempts to test all the new varieties of fruit which will grow 

 in New York. The results of this work are published from time to 

 time in the fruit books issued by the Station and in a series of bulletins 

 entitled " New or Noteworthy Fruits." Bulletin No. 385 is the 

 second of the serial reports on these fruit tests. Beside giving an 

 account of several meritorious fruits it contains suggestions to buyers 

 of fruit trees. The following fruits are recommended to fruit growers 

 as worthy of test either for home use or for commercial purposes: 

 King David apple, Edgemont peach, Abbesse D'Oignies cherry, 

 French plum, Hicks grape, Chautauqua gooseberry, Chautauqua 

 currant and the Indiana and Barrymore strawberries. 



Distribution of Station apples. — -Circular No. 28 describes twelve new 

 varieties of apples for distribution in 1914. These varieties are the 

 outcome of experimental work in plant breeding. They have been 

 grown and compared with practically all of the standard sorts of 

 their kind and are equal or superior in one or more respects to 

 apples of their season, as grown on the Station grounds. The dis- 

 tribution of these varieties is undertaken that their value and adapt- 

 ability in the different fruit regions of New York may be ascer- 

 tained. A fuller description of most of the varieties listed has been 

 published in Bulletin No. 350 from this Station. 



Culture of sweet corn. — A brief treatise on the culture of sweet 

 corn is given in Circular No. 29, in which the needs of the plant as 



