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out the fact that a factor of error was introduced in cutting 

 which affected the weights. This occurred as follows: The 

 method of ridging every Saturday favored the cutting of larger 

 stems, hence, of more primes, early in the week, but also more 

 pounds of waste when bunched. Toward the end of the week 

 as the ridges were worked down in cutting, careless cutters 

 would cut too short makiug more culls but at the same time 

 reducing the amount of waste iu pounds when bunched. Fur- 

 thermore, no two persons would get the same results in cutting, 

 nor would the cuttings of one person be the same before and 

 after a rain. Hence in 1900 the cuttings from seven sprayed 

 rows were bunched by themselves, as were also those from the 

 seven unsprayed rows, and a record kept of the bunches obtained 

 at each cutting. This gave us not only the total yield of primes 

 and culls in addition to total yield in pounds, from sprayed and 

 unsijrayed rows, but also the money value of the sprayed and 

 unsprayed crops. As in 1899, the primes were sold for 14 cents 

 and the culls for 6 cents a bunch. The following tables show 

 only summaries of weights. The records of the weights and 

 bunches of each cutting are too bulky to be presented in tabular 

 form. 



Table III. — Yield of Sprayed and Unsprayed Asparagus. 



SPP^YED. 



Row Row Row Row Row Row Row 



1. 3. 5. 7. 9. 11. 13. Total. 



Lb». Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 



1899 93.4 115.4 116.8 114.4 106.9 102.8 115.1 764.8 



190€ 115.4 127.0 137.3 125.6 120.8 115.0 134.4 875.5 



Gain 22.0 11.6 20.5 11.2 13.9 12.2 19.3 110.7 



Percentages 23.5 10.0 17.5 9.8 13.0 11.8 16.8 14.5 



UNSPRAYED. 



Row Row Row Row Row Row Row 



2. 4. 6. 8. 10. 12. 14. Total. 

 Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 



1899 104.4 114.2 110.6 116.4 109.4 110.8 105.4 771.2 



lyOO 77.9 92.1 79.0 95.0 75.3 85.8 87.3 592.4 



Loss 26.5 22.1 31.6 21.4 34.1 25.0 18.1 178.8 



Porceulages .... 25.5 19.0 28.5 18.0 31.0 22.5 17.0 23.0 



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