REPORT OF CRANBERRY SUBSTATION FOR 1914. 95 



The following table shows the total amount of fruit picked from these 

 various plots and from check areas measured out on the bog adjacent 

 to them, as well as the rate of yield per rod in each case, the relative size 

 of the berries, and the per cent, of increase or decrease in fruit produc- 

 tion of the plots as compared with their checks: — 



Table 2. — Results of Spraying for Fungous Diseases. 



1 Decrease. 



2 The size of the fruit as shown in the above table was worked out by taking counts of the 

 berries in cupful samples (New England Cranberry Sales Company's inspector's cup), the samples 

 being spread out in a sales company's inspector's hand-grader before the counting was done. 

 When placed in the grader the smallest berries would pass through into the box below, leaving 

 the larger ones to be counted separately. In such formulas as "90+3," given in the table, the 

 first figure shows the average number of large berries, and the second indicates the number of 

 small ones that passed through the grader, the figure in parentheses being the number of samples 

 examined. These samples were examined at the end of the storage tests, and were taken from 

 different boxes as far as possible, so that they might fairly represent the areas from which the 

 berries were picked. 



' When two or more checks were taken on a plot, as the table shows was generally the case, 

 they were laid out on opposite sides of the plot, and their areas and fruit production were com- 

 bined in making up the table. 



4 Increase. 



s The first record given for this plot is for the half sprayed in full bloom, and the other record 

 is for the half which received the three other applications only. 



It will be seen at once that, of all these plots, "1913" alone showed a 

 marked increase in the quantity of fruit produced. This plot was sprayed 

 for the first time in 1913, and the results obtained with it in this second 

 year of spraying agree, in a general way, with those obtained in 1912 with 

 plots A, B, C, D and E, they then having been sprayed only one year 

 before. Moreover, the increase was marked, though considerably re- 

 duced, even on that portion of the plot which had been sprayed during 



