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of tilled trees but the foliage was still somewhat sparse. The crop 

 of this first season was a little below the normal in amount, the 

 falling off being due to poor setting rather than to small size of 

 apples. The second year the foliage was normal in all respects and 

 the crop was the best per tree of all plats in the experiment as it 

 was again in the third year and the fifth while the fourth season the 

 yield was much above the normal, being exceeded in the tree average 

 only by two other plats. 



Table VI. — Yield of Plats and Tree Averages in Auchter Orchard in 



Second-half of Test. 



Table VI. — Yield of Plats and Tree Averages in Auchter Orchard in 

 Second-half of Test — (Concluded). 



Table VI gives the yields of the several plats during the last five 

 years of the experiment and shows graphically the change in 

 productiveness with the change from sod to tillage. 



