January, '14) FERTILIZERS IN CULTIVATED ORCHARD. 



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Chart No. 4. The above chart ehows the comparative twig growth in the various plots 

 for a four-year period. 



Table No. 20 gives the comparative results of sod and clean culture. Here 

 ■we see that cultivation alone has given more than twice as much fruit as 

 sod treatment, and nearly twice as great a twig growth. 



Table No. 21 shows the superiority of turning in a leguminous cover crop, 

 there being an inch increase for each twig recorded each year and some gain 

 in yield. 



Table No. 22 gives the comparison of fertilization and non-fertilization 

 in this orchard, both being treated exactly the same otherwise. While we 

 cannot assign a reason for the trees in Plots 8, 9 and 10 failing to respond 

 as did those in Plot 5, yet it is a notable fact that they are not superior. 



