230 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Wire screen iplaced around trees ■ 2.88 



Total cost of Plot I 8.88 



Cost per individual tree .093 



Value of alfalfa removed 500 lbs. at |25 T | G.25 



A^alue of alfalfa removed 1500 lbs. at |25 T 18.75 



Total value of alfalfa removed | 25.00 



Total cost of riot 8.88 



Net profit I 16.12 



Plot 5 (72 trees) : with Alfalfa Mulch— Nitrate at t^oda Applied 

 upon the Mulch — the Second and Third Clippingvs Being 

 Removed from the I'lot. 

 y^ lb. Nitrate Soda applied per tree at l:>4c lb.. .| .81 



Similar application 18 days later .81 



Wire screens placed ai'ound trees 2.1G 



Labor — mowing, raking, cocking, hauling, etc.. 5.10 



I ■ 



Total cost of Plot I 8.88 



Cost per individual tree .123 



Value of alfalfa removed 500 lbs. at $25 T. . . .| 6.25 



Value of alfalfa removed 1000 lbs. R,t |25 T. . . . 12.50 



Total value of alfalfa removed I 18.75 



Total cost of plot . 8.88 



Net profit % 9.87 



Elxcellent results have been obtained in the several fertilizer experi- 

 ments on tree fruits as carried on in several parts of the State. Detailed 

 results of the experiment in the Farrand orchard have already been pub- 

 lished in the Quarterly Bulletin, February 1922, and the results of the 

 many orchards in co-operation with the Countj' Agents have been pub- 

 lished in the mid-winter report of the Michigan State Horticultural 

 Society, 1921, and in the papers published by the County Agents. 



New projects have been started in breedng, testing and cultural ex- 

 periments with small fruits on a new ten acre plot leased at South 

 Haven. Also on the work of establishing a source of disease-free rasp- 

 berry plants in Michigan. 



The necessity of pre^'ooling cherries and small fruits for distant ship- 

 ping led to the eonvstruction the last spring of pre-'cooling x>laiits. This 

 being an esisential but new venture for the growers it became necessary 

 for this Section to lend its services in uiakiug a success of this prac- 

 tice and in obtaining data on these shipments for future guidance. 



Eespectfully submitted, 



C. P. HALLIGAN, 



Horticulturist. 

 East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1922. 



