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tween the trees. TIus is a matter of common experience.. 

 If I Avere to plan an experiment of that sort and start it 

 from the beginning, I should wish to use similar stock from- 

 the same lot and take the scions all off the same tree. That 

 was not done in this case. 



Yon will be interested with the relative results Avitb 

 different varieties. There were four varieties and we findl 

 that these different varieties react somewhat differently to* 

 the different manuring, the yields being as follows : 



Gravensteins, with no manure. 89 barrels ; with wood 

 ashes, 170 barrels; with bone and sulphate of potash, 267 

 barrels ; with bone and muriate of potash, 319 barrels y 

 with barnyard manure, 325 barrels. 



I think the explanation of the bone sulphate plot not 

 giving as great a yield is that the chestnut grove towered! 

 above them and thus injured the apple trees. The chest- 

 nuts Avere at first cut back, but in the meantime they have- 

 been growing and so now it has been cut back some four- 

 rods further, and think that in some years the Graven- 

 steins have been injured by these chestnuts but in some- 

 years their yield on this plot has been equal to that on the 

 bone and muriate plot. 



The yields of the Baldwius according to fertilizing- 

 have been : 



No manure, 50 barrels ; bone and muriate. 175 barrels ;■ 

 wood ashes, 285 barrels ; barnyard manure, 630 ; bone and 

 sulphate of potash, 819. I want to call your particular at- 

 tention in this contest to the results of the bone and muriate 

 and the bone and sulphate of potash. The amount of actual" 

 potash is the same in each and the amount of bone is the 

 same but the chemical combination is different. 



It seemed to me that the different varieties shoAV char- 

 acteristic differences in respect to the returns they made 

 in regard to the fiertilizer applied, and I found in that re- 

 spect that the russets were the varieties that apparently had 

 the power to get out and hustle for themselves. With no 

 fertilizer applied the yield of russets Avas 114 barrels, Avith 

 bone and Ioav grade sulphate, 566 barrels. 



The j'ield of the Greenings was : No manure. 97 bar- 

 rels ; bone and muriate, 328 barrels ; bone and sulphate, 341 

 barrels ; wood ashes, 347 barrels and barnyard manure, 730' 

 barrels. 



The quality of the fruit lias shioAvn very- characteristic 



