BULLETIN 229. 



by S. W. Smith, William A. Laffler, J. N. Stebbins, Albert Wood and 

 many others, but no such list can be properly given without including 

 four or five hundred names. The acknowledgments must therefore be 

 to the apple-growers of Orleans county. 



The field work. The work of gathering the statistics was done between 

 August 24 and October 22, 1904. This later period than was spent in 

 Wayne county allowed a more careful study of the condition of the fruit 

 at the time of picking and the relation of the quality to prices. The yields 



for 1904 were secured by 

 letter. A total of 564 

 orchards, containing 4,881 

 acres, were examined. 



Methods of work. 

 The field equipment, as in 

 Wayne county, consisted 

 of a soil auger, camera, 

 notebook, blanks for re- 

 ports, bicycle, etc. Mr. 

 Biies and myself were 

 together each evening and 

 worked together in the 

 field frequently, so that 

 the work was kept on a 

 uniform basis. 



The methods of mak- 

 ing computations were 

 carried out as formerly described, except that in computing average yields 

 all bearing orchards were included. But there was an average of only 

 eight orchards set since 1879 whose yields were secured, and these yields 

 were not low (table 17). The average yields are therefore comparable 

 with those in Wayne county for orchards set before 1880. In all com- 

 putations, a barrel is taken as three bushels. This is a little high, but is 

 necessary as it is the measure generally used by farmers. 



In Carlton township, which is the middle one of the three townships 

 bordering on Lake Ontario, every orchard as large as five acres, and most 

 of those above four acres, were examined. In the remainder of the 

 county most of the orchards above eight or ten acres and many smaller 

 ones were examined, the average size being nine acres. The investigation 

 covered the entire county. 



FIG. 159. Baldwin: The leading commercial apple 

 of Western Nezv York. 



