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4. Cultivation and cover crop one year in three produced only two-thirds 

 as many fruit buds and one-half as many apples as cultivation two years in 

 three. (Compare plots 2 and 3 in table No. 15.) 



5. Cultivation and cover crop one year in three doubled the production of 

 fruit-buds and increased the crop of apples three times compared with no 

 cultivation at all. (Compare plots 1 and 2, tables Nos. 15 and 18.) 



6. Cultivation and cover crop two years in three gave almost as good 

 results as cultivation and cover crop yearly. (Compare plots 3 and 5 in tables 

 Nos. 15 and 18.) 



TABLE NO. 18. 

 Average Number of Apples per Tree in Plots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. 



7. The use of fertilizers in addition to cultivation and cover crops failed to 

 result in an increased production of fruit buds. (Compare all fertilized plots, 

 6 to 10 inclusive, with plot 5, which received the same cultural treatment, table 

 No. 15.) 



8. The use of a fertilizer relatively rich in phosphoric acid (in the form of 

 acid phosphate) resulted in the least production of fruit buds among the 

 fertilized plots. (Compare plot 8 with plots 7, 9. and 10. Table No. 19.) 



9. The number of fruit buds was not increased by excess applications of 

 nitrogen and phosphoric acid over normal applications. (Compare plots 8, 9, 

 and 10 with plot 7, table No. 19.) 



