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STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



I912. 



The third year we began with larger pruning costs — perhaps 

 not larger pruning costs but more people began to prune their 

 trees, and the cost does not vary as much. The cost in three 

 orchards, for instance, is a cent per tree, in another it is half a 

 cent, and in still another it is a little more than a cent per 

 tree. That is figuring probably about three minutes for a tree 

 for pruning. Cultivation was charged in two cases ; one 

 orchard was grafted that year — that is, the whip orchard — and 

 that was the beginning, I believe, of the mulch system on this 

 particular orchard. The mulch cost, for 31 trees, $3.75, a 

 little better than ten cents per tree. The totals that year varied 

 considerably. 



1913- 



