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the next year and if it would cause the tree to set more fruit 

 buds, to blossom and bear fruit the following season. 



In order to satisfy myself and others more fully in regard to 

 the real merits of this fertilizer I tried the following experiment : 

 On the east end of my main orchard I have a block of just one 

 hundred Baldwin trees, five rows, twenty trees in each row, and 

 the conditions as to size and soil are as nearly equal as it is pos- 

 sible to have them. 



On the middle row I made no application whatever, but 

 applied it, at the rate of ten pounds to the tree, to all the rest of 

 the block, with the following result. On the row where there 

 were none of the chemicals used I picked just twenty-one barrels, 

 including all the windfalls. The average yield to the other four 

 rows was just forty-eight barrels to each row, including the 

 windfalls, making an aggregate of one hundred and eight bar- 

 rels extra, just as they were picked, that I got on the four rows 

 where the chemicals were used. 



Their value could not be less than seventy-five cents per bar- 

 rel as there were but few culls among them, which amounts to 

 eighty-one dollars. The cost of the formula, including two 

 pounds extra that I applied to one row, was not over eighteen 

 dollars, which deducted from eighty-one dollars leaves a net 

 profit of sixty-three dollars on the four rows, more than I should 

 have had if none of the chemicals had been used. It must be 

 Ijorne in mind that the results would have been far more satis- 

 factory, if the trees had all blossomed. A good many had only 

 a very few and quite a number none at all, consequently there 

 was no benefit derived from those although they were all treated 

 alike. The fruit on the treated trees was much larger and supe- 

 rior in every respect, with the exception of the color, which was 

 not quite as good, with less No. 2 fruit and culls. 



The results were equally satisfactory on all the rest of the 

 orchard where it was applied. Especially so with the Bellflowers, 

 where I applied it to trees that never bore anything but culls I 

 had the largest and finest specimens I ever raised. I also applied 

 it to my pear trees with like good results, as a proof of which I 

 shall refer you to my fruit on the exhibition table for further evi- 

 dence. I also derived another benefit from its use that I consider 

 worth mentioning. I certainly cut not less than one ton of good 

 hay more than I should have had in the orchard if the chemicals 



