342 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



RErORT ON EXPERIMENTAL ORCHARD. 



BY JOE A. BURTON. 



The orchard, as a whole, has made fair growth. Several trees have 

 died from root-rot and some from depredations of groundhogs. The 

 growth of the seedlings is very irregular. Some grow very fine and seem 

 in evei-y way healthy. Some grow very slow. Some seem almost liilled 

 by mildew. So far as producing valuable new varieties is concerned, I 

 thinli many had as well be gi-ubbed out now. But as we have no prece- 

 dence to grow by, it seems preferable to let them grow. One hundred 

 and twenty selected trees were talien by L. P. Motsinger to grow in a 

 private orchard. No doubt the Committee of Control would gladly give 

 out trees to other responsible parties for private use. It is a relief, so 

 far, for the Experimental Orchard. 



Only about sixty of the 1,000 pedigreed seeds planted in the fall of 

 1901 grew. The failure to grow was probablj' due to the impacting of the 

 clay over the seeds. The seeds planted were 



Rome Beauty, pollenized by Ben Davis. 

 Rome Beauty, pollenized by Grimes. 

 Ben Davis, pollenized by Rome Beauty. 

 Ben Davis, pollenized by Grimes. 

 Winesap, pollenized by Rome Beauty. 

 Winesap, pollenized by Grimes. 

 Winesap, ijollenized by Ben Davis. 

 Grimes, pollenized by Benoni. 

 Grimes, pollenized bj' Inbred. 

 Benoni, pollenized by Early Harvest. 

 Benoni, pollenized by Chenango. 

 Benoni, pollenized by Trenton Early. 

 Benoni, pollenized by — . 

 Benoni, pollenized by Yellow Transparent. 

 Yellow Transparent, pollenized by Benoni. 



This year we have about 1,000 pedigreed seeds. We expect to cover 

 them with coarse sand. Our private orchard has been freed from all 

 undesirable varieties, so any crops that may be made naturally will be 

 good crops. Therefore, we will plant freely from this orchard in the fu- 

 ture. 



By direction of the committee, some A^ery important experiments, in 

 addition to what were already under way, have been commenced. One 



