APPLE ORCHARD SURVEY OF NIAGARA COUNTY. 295 



VI. KINDS OF COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS 



THREE-YEAR AVERAGE INCOME PER ACRE FOR ALL FERTILIZERS 



The following results were found for Wayne County (Bull. No. 226) : 



YIELD IN BUSHELS FOR 1902 AND 1903 FOR FERTILIZED AND UNFERTILIZED 

 ORCHARDS. TREES SET BEFORE 1880 



TILLAGE 



'Acreage of tilled and unfilled orchards. Precisely one-third of the 

 orchards had been tilled for a ten-year period previous to 1906; and 

 fifteen per cent have been in sod for this period. Seventeen per cent, 

 or a little less than one-fifth, had been tilled for five years, and about 

 an equal number had been in sod for this period. 



