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tree 6 gave the largest yield, which was one bushel. The crop of 

 marketable Greenings was between three and four times as large 

 on the unthinned as it was on the thinned trees. It averaged 

 2.14 bu. per tree where the fruit was thinned and 7.58 bu. per 

 tree where it was unthinned. The amount in each grade is 

 shown below: 



Table III.— Fruit Thinned to Four Inches; Defective and Inferior 



Specimens Removed. 



yield of barrel fruit per tree, 1897. 



* Not graded into ists and 2nds. 



It is not clear that in these cases the thinning resulted in loss. 

 Since the thinned trees had hardly enough fruit for a fair crop 

 before any thinning was done they are not strictly comparable in 

 their yields with the corresponding unthinned trees. 



Record for i8g8. — With the second method of treatment the 

 same trees were kept under experiment in 1898 as in 1896. Un- 

 favorable weather conditions immediately following the blooming 

 season in 1898 caused the loss of much fruit, as stated more fully 

 on p. 298. On June 30th the trees were examined and it was 

 found that the Baldwin trees i, 2 and 3, which were to be thinned, 

 gave prospects for only a fair crop, while the corresponding trees 

 which were not to be thinned promised fair to good crops. The 

 Greening trees which were to be thinned gave prospects of scant 

 to fair crops. Those which were to be thinned differed little, 

 on the average, from those which were not. The thinning was 



