New Yoek Agricultural Experiment Station. 



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Yield of Cucumbers on the Spbayed Field at Smithtown Bbanch. 



(Two and fifteen one-hundred ths acres. ) 



Date. 



Number 

 picked. 



August 



Sept. 



Total . 



143,600 First class pickles. Value, at $1.25 per M., $179.50. 



Yield per acre, 66,790. 



Value of crop per acre, $83.49. 



(4) Cost of spraying 2.15 acres at Smithtown Branch. 



(a) Cost of materials for spraying $7 90 



Copper sulphate $5 70 



One barrel of lime 1 50 



Freightage 70 



(b) Labor (same rate as at Greenlawn) 26 25 



(c) Allowance for wear of spraying outfit 2 46 



Total '. $36 61 



Cost per acre 17 03 



