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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The was is Buporior to paint in the matter of healing, bul does not last as well and 

 isnol bo convenient to apply, although in warm weather, when it works well, there 

 .slhil, trouble in tlmregard. Coal tar is useful iu preventing the wood from check- 

 ing, inn appears to be a positive hindrance to healing, so that, in spile of the fact 

 thai it stays well, there is little to recommend it. Pine tar is no aid to healing, 

 being apparentlj a trifle detrimental, while it helps only slightly in the matter of 

 checking, and does Dot Ias1 well, therefore it lias uothing to recommend it. Shellac 

 is a failure. It does nor last and neither aids the wound in healing nor, to any 

 appreciable extent, prevents it from checking. 



Results of thinning fruit in 1897 {Canad. Hort, 21 {1898), No. 4, p. 

 . ( me tree of each variety of fruit tested was thinned and another 

 as nearly like it as possible was left unthinned. About one-half of the 

 fruil was removed in thinning. The apple and pear, it is thought, were 

 thinned too late to give besl results. In most cases the fruit on thinned 

 trees was larger and better than that on the, unthinned trees and in 

 several eases the iiiithiiined fruit was injured by rot. The results are 

 given in the following table: 



Results of thinning fruit. 



Peaches: 



Alexander 



Alexander 



Eonesl John 



' lentennial 



Hale Early 



Waterloo 



Craw ford 



Early Rivers 



Apple: Spy 



Pear: Clajiji Favorite . 



Variety. 



Time con- 

 sumed in 

 thinning. 



Hours. 

 2. 00 



.5(1 

 .25 

 .25 

 1.00 

 .50 

 .33 

 .33 



Yield. 



Thinned Unthinned 

 tree. tree. 



Quarts. 



138 

 06 

 12 

 84 

 111 

 60 

 24 

 162 

 108 

 132 



Quarts. 



114 

 42 

 12 

 60 

 84 

 66 

 24 

 108 

 156 

 180 



Stimulating and holding fruit buds, H. E. Glazier (Oklahoma 

 Sta. Huh 31, pp. 15-18). — The author notes various methods of retard- 

 ing the development of fruit buds of plums and reports a test of root 

 pruning in this connection. Trees were root pruned by digging trenches 

 about them, thus cutting the lateral roots. A treated tree was able to 

 resist a greater degree of cold, made a greater growth the year follow- 

 ing treatment, and produced much more fruit than an untreated one. 



Strawberries and grapes, H. E. Glazier (Oklahoma Sta. Bui. 31, 

 pp. 3-14, Jigs. :;). — Directions are given tor the culture of strawberries 

 in Oklahoma. Some 25 varieties of strawbemes were tested, the major- 

 ity of them giving good results. The dates of blooming, ripening, and 

 first and last picking, and the yield of 19 varieties are tabulated. 

 Brief notes are given on a number of varieties. 



Grape growing in Oklahoma is discussed. A type of grape having 

 small leaves and a tendency to deep rooting is thought best suited to 

 the conditions of the Territory. For these reasons the Labrusca type 

 is not well adapted to the region. A test of 175 varieties of grapes is 

 reported. The parentage, date of ripening, color, and yield of the 



