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meter and 755 measured less than that. Their total weight 

 Avas 432 pounds, of which 70 per cent was of marketable size. 

 On the trees that were not sprayed, of the 2,117 apples borne, 

 only 654 were more than two and one-half inches in dia- 

 meter and 1,463 were less than that. Their total weight was 

 only 313 pounds, of which but 53 per cent was of marketable 

 size. 



The spraj-ed trees bore approximately ten times as much 

 fruit free from scab, and nearly twice as many pounds of 

 fruit over two and one-half inches in diameter as did the 

 unsprayed trees. 



A study of the above table shows that the fruit on all the 

 trees was small. This was to be expected, from the fact 

 that the orchard has never been properly cared for and dur- 

 ing the progress of the experiment received only the most 

 cursory cultivation. Of approximately 2,500 boxes of fruit 

 borne by the 400 trees, there were not over 600 boxes of 

 four and five tier fruit. The small size, however, could not 

 in any way be attributed to the spraying since the figures 

 show nearly twice as much fruit of marketable size upon the 

 sprayed as upon those unsprayed. 



