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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CHERRY ORCHARDS PROFITS. 

 RESULTS IN NORTH MANITOU CHERRY ORCHARD 1910. 



lUG bearing trees — wild chen y or INTazzards not inclntled, being GGi^% 

 of an acre. 



Trees average I614 ft. apart or at a rate of 160 trees to the acre. 



Yield hy Varieties. 



Expenses per acre picking and crates 

 Net return f. o. b. Island on the trees 



Expense per acre picking and crates . . 

 Net return f. o. l>. Island on the trees 



$175.60 

 1161.50 



I 175 50 

 1,161 50 



Best Yield in OrcJiard. 



Seven consecutive trees of Black Tartarian standing together in the 

 north-west corner of the orchard away from any other cherry trees 

 yielded 71 cases (besides windfalls and dropped chen'ies). These 71 

 cases sold at an average price of .f2.85 or approximately |2.50 net f. o. b. 

 the Island, or at the rate of |4,056.00 per acre net. 

 North Manitou Island, Michigan. 



Ben Newhall. 



SPRAYING PEACHES FOR THE CONTROL OF BROWN-ROT, 



SCAB, AND CURCULIO. 



BY W. M. SCOTT. OF THE BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, AND A. L. QUAINTANCE, 



OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



The peach-growing industry in the United States at the present time 

 has become a very important one, being second in extent among fruits 

 only to the cultivation of the apple. According to the 1900 census there 

 were in the territory east of the Rocky Mountains, which is subject to 

 the troubles treated in this bulletin, approximately 91,000,000 bearing 

 peach trees. Since that time the number of bearing trees has increased 

 by perhaps one-fourth, making a possible total of 113,750,000 trees. Care- 



