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sons of average fruit from the different treatments are needed 

 to determine their relative influences on this important char- 

 acter. As yet, however, the facilities have not been sufficient to 

 get this accomplished. 



RESULTS FROM THE FASSETT ORCHARD. 



This orchard is fully mature, since its age, as shown in Table 

 I, is now 40 years. Its results, therefore, should be typical of 

 orchards in the fully mature class. Our experiment here was 

 started in 1907, and the treatments involved are those numbered 

 IV to IX in the general plan shown in Figure i. The other 

 treatments in this plan were omitted because of limitations in 

 the experimental area available. 



The results of the present treatments in respect to the four 

 characters under consideration are shown in Tables X and XI. 

 The yields are given for four years only, excluding the first two 

 years instead of only the first one in this case, so as to allow 

 the same number of full and off years to each treatment. This 

 is desirable in the present experiment because of the marked 

 alternations in bearing that have developed in some of the plats, 

 with their full crops not all coming on the same years. The 

 trees here are set at the rate of 27 to the acre. 



TABLE X.— INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL METHODS ON YIELD AND GROWTH. 

 EXPERIMENT 221. 



(Annual yields per acre, 1909-12 and the average growths, 1907-12.) 



