state; pomological society. 



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Of that portion of "the orcliard selected for work, forty trees 

 were placed under cultivation, an equal number were mulched 

 but otherwise fertilized and treated as the first. The adjacent 

 portion of the orchard, planted to Kings, remained in the condi- 

 tion the whole orchard was in at the commencement of the work. 



The results were most pronounced from the very first. The 

 cultivated trees took on a rich green color, made a strong growth 

 and retained their foliage late in the season. The mulched 

 trees also made a good growth but not equal to those which were 

 cultivated ; w'hile the untreated trees were yellow, made little 

 srrowth and lost their foliage before the first of October. 



Cultivated and sprayed trees retain tlieir foliage late in the season. 



The orchard did not come into bearing till 1902, when it was 

 found that of both Gravensteins and Tollman's the number of 

 trees producing fruit was fifty per cent greater on the cultivated 

 than on the mulched land. The average total yield per tree was 

 also about ten per cent higher on the cultivated trees. In 1903 

 another good crop of fruit was borne ; many of the same trees 

 which bore a good crop the year before being among the best 

 ones this year. 



The systematic mulching and feeding of the trees adjacent to 

 the cultivated plat have had a marked eflfect, and these trees 



