FIFTY-FIRST ANNUA!. RRPORT. 17 



Date Lalxji- Cost 



9-24-21 Loading and hauling alfalfti to l);un 1.35 



11-23-21 Wiro Screen placed around trees 2.16 



Total Cost of Plot S 8.88 



Cost per individual tree S .123 



7-27-21 Value of alfalfa removed 500 lbs. at $25 per ton $ 6.25 



9-29-21 Value of alfalfa removed 1000 lbs. at $25 per ton 12.50 



Total value of alfalfa removed $18.75 



Total cost of Plot 8.8S 



Net Profit $ 9.87 



RESULTS OF FERTILIZATION IN OHIO ORCHARDS. 



PROF. R. B. CRUICKSHANK, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. 



I have often wanted to attend a Michigan State Horticultural Society 

 meeting and therefore, I am glad to be here. It is a pleasure also for 

 me to bring to your greetings from the Ohio State Horticultural Society 

 and from the American Pomological Society. The latter will begin its 

 meetings tomorrow in Toledo, Ohio. You are all invited to attend after 

 your convention closes. Dr. L. H. Bailey, one of your former Michigan 

 men is president of the Society and will be in Toledo at that meeting. 

 There are many members of that Society in Michigan at the present 

 time, and we hope that in the coming years that there will be many more 

 in it. We know there are good fruit growers in this State and we want 

 a good representation from your group. 



The subject to which I have been assigned is "Results of Fertilization 

 in Ohio Orchards." I shall discuss the topic entirely from the practical 

 side with little of the technical factors involved. In order to bring the 

 situation a little more clearly to your minds I am going to tell you a little 

 about the pomological geography of the Buckeye State. We have two 

 fruit sections in Ohio that are important. Lake Erie washes the northern 

 shore of the state and due to its moderating effects we have there a 

 considerable fruit section similar to yours along Lake Michigan. There 

 are grown there apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, grapes and berries. 

 In the southeastern and southern parts of the state, practically all along 

 the Ohio river, we have a rough, hilly country. Many places in that 

 section have developed largely into fruit producing areas. This is due 

 perhaps to two things: the elevation gives good air drainage and much 

 of the land is not well adapted to general farming. Fertilization work 

 began in the southern part of the state in that hilly section. 



The land, except in the valleys, never was very rich and much of it 

 had been farmed for a long time without having returned to it anything 

 in the way of fertilizer. The soil was run down. The trees were becom- 

 ing less and less productive, showing less growth, less vigor, and less 

 color of leaf. The trees would bloom irregularly and there would be 

 small fruit production following. The condition in many instances was 

 extremely discouraging. The trouble was laid to late frosts, lack of 



