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summary for first method. 



Neither of these trees bore fruit in 1897, and no record of their 

 yield in 1899 was kept because they did not yield enough that 

 year to give an opportunity for thinning the fruit. The results 

 for the years 1896 and 1898 are tabulated below. The yield is 

 stated in bushels. The percentages of barreled fruit marketed 

 in grades i and 2 are also given. 



Table I, — Clusters Thinned to One Apple ; Defective and Inferior 

 Fruits Removed. 



yield per tree in 1896 AND 1898. 



14 



Unthinned 



Total . 



1950 

 15- 



34-50 



60.5 

 76.9 



66.66 



12.75 

 4-50 



17.25 



39.5 

 23.1 



33-33 



32.25 

 19.50 



51.75 



4-50 



27. 



a. The drops were inversely proportionate to the yield of fruit fit for barreling, 

 being less on 13 than on 14 and of better quality. The number of bushels of drops 

 and culls was not recorded in 1896. 



These results will be considered further in a general discussion 

 following the presentation of report on the other methods of 

 thinning. 



SECOND METHOD. 



Record for i8p6. — The second method, in which all imperfect 

 fruits were removed and all others thinned to not less than four 

 inches apart, was tried on Baldwin and Greening. Three trees 

 of each were thinned and three others of each kind were left 

 unthinned for comparison. The following statement shows the 



