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yielded one and one-half, two and one-half and four and one-half times 

 as much, respectively, as the corresponding unsprayed Patten Greening. 

 The total yield of both Patten Greening and Wealthy fruit is shown in 

 the following table: 



GRAND TOTAL PATTEN GEEENINQ AND WKALTHY. 



YIELD 

 PLAT BUSH. PER CENT. 



Plat I, unsprayed 5.75 100 



Plat II, sprayed 23.33 406 



Plat III, sprayed 28.06 529 



Plat IV, unsprayed 5.31 100 



Plat V, sprayed 28.5 537 



The total yield of sprayed plat II is 406 per cent of that of the corre- 

 sponding unsprayed plat; the yield of sprayed plat III is 529 per cent and 

 that of sprayed plat V is 537 per cent of that of the corresponding un- 

 sprayed plat. 



GRADES OF FRUIT COMPARED. 



But the benefits of the treatment were not confined to increasing the 

 yield. Not only was there more fruit and finer fruit where the trees were 

 sprayed, but the fruit hung to the trees better. The amount and per- 

 centage of dropped and picked fruit are set forth in the following state- 

 ment. The fruit was not graded into firsts and seconds, but the great su- 

 periority of the sprayed fruit over corresponding grades of the unsprayed 

 fruit was apparent to everyone who examined the crop. 



Patten Greening. 



yield of patten greening and wealthy under experiment in the trigg 



ORCHARD. 



Plat 



2 



Yield 



Bushels 



Dropped 



Picked 



Total 



Per Cent 



Dropped 



Picked 



Plat I, unsprayed.. 



Plat II, sprayed 



Plat III, sprayed... 

 Plat IV, unsprayed 

 Plat V, sprayed 



Plat I, unsprayed. 



Plat II, sprayed 



Plat III, sprayed... 

 Plat IV, unsprayed 

 Plat V, sprayed 



2. 



2.87 

 1.8 

 1.12 

 1.75 



2.5 

 4.5 

 5.75 

 .43 

 2.25 



4.5 



7.37 



7.55 



1.55 



4. 



44.4 

 38.9 

 23.8 

 72.3 

 43.8 



55.6 

 61.1 

 76.2 

 27.7 

 56.2 



WEALTHY 



8.41 

 12.5 



3. 

 16.5 



.56 

 7.5 



.75 



1.25 

 15.91 

 20.5 



3.75 

 24.5 



54.4 

 52.9 

 61.0 

 80.0 

 67.3 



45.6 

 47.1 

 39.0 

 20.0 

 32.7 



In every instance the percentage of dropped fruit was greater on the un- 

 sprayed plats than it was on the corresponding sprayed plats. This dif- 

 ference at least in the case of Wealthy from plats I and II, where it 

 amounted to only one and one-half bushels in a hundred, but Wealthy in 



