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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



INDIVIDUALITY OF APPLE TREES, AS SHOWN IN THE ORCHARDS AT THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL 



FARM. 



At the Central Experimental Farm, the yield of each individual bearing tree of 

 apples and plums has been kept since the year 1898. The yields for these thirteen 

 seasons have given a most valuable record of the variation in yields of trees of the same 

 variety planted at the same time and under about the same soil and cultural conditions. 

 Of some varieties there have been but a few trees available for comparison, but the 

 yields even from these are very suggestive. 



In the following table are published the yields of only a few of the varieties from 

 which the returns have been kept. The records of many other varieties could be given 

 in the same way. 



Apples, Wealthy— Planted 1896 — Yield in Gallons. 



Tree. 



1 . 

 2... 

 3... 

 4... 

 5... 



r.... 



7... 



8... 



9... 

 10... 

 11... 

 12... 

 13... 

 14... 

 15... 

 16... 

 17... 



1399 



44 



1900 



12 



2 



6 



6 



1 



8 



11 



12 



11 



7 



6 



5 



2 



2 



2 



•5 







•25 

 •5 

 •5 





 ■5 

 •25 

 •25 

 •25 

 •5 

 ■25 

 '5 

 •25 

 •25 



•o 



100 



1901 



2 

 2 

 2 



15 

 7 

 3 



10 



585 



Total 



Yield 



1899-1910 



83 



41 



37 



203 



131 



83 



100 



57 



104 



109 



140 



57 



96 



107 



143 



125 



93 



5 



75 



5 



25 



75 



25 



00 







25 



25 







5 



5 



5 



75 



5 



75 



1716-0 



Apples, McMaiian — Planted 1888 — Yield in Gallons. 



