Apple Orchard Survey of Niagara County. 



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VI. Kinds of Commercial Fertilizers 



FERTILIZERS. 



Potash or ashes 



Phosphorus with potash or ashes . 

 Complete fertiUzer 



Number of Number of 

 orchards. acres. 



73 



106 



20i 



Three-Year Average Income per Acre for all Fertilizers 



METHOD OF TREATMENT. 



No fertihzation 



Barnyard manure. . . . 

 Commercial fertihzers 



Straw mulch 



Cover-crop 



Bushels. 



Income. 



The following results were found for Wayne County (Bull. No. 226) 



Yield in Bushels for IQ02 and 1903 for P'^ertilized and Unfertilized 



Orchards. Trees Set Before 1880 



TILLAGE 



'Acreage of tilled and untillcd orchards. — Precisely one-third of the 

 orchards had been tilled for a ten-year period previous to 1906 ; and 

 fifteen per cent have been in sod for this period. Seventeen per cent, 

 or a little less than one-fifth, had been tilled for five years, and about 

 an equal number had been in sod for this period. 



