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system of orcharding has wide apphcation. Table LXIII 

 gives the treatments and the results secured for three years. 



Table LXIII 



YIELD OF BALDWIN APPLES IN A RENOVATED ORCHARD (nEW HAMPSHIRE) 



ALL TREES MULCHED WITH 200 POUNDS SWAMP HAY TO A TREE 



YIELD A ROW (8 TREES) IN BARRELS 



EXPERIMENTS IN TILLED ORCHARDS 



It has been stated that a cultivated apple orchard usually 

 responds much more slowly to the use of fertilizers than a 

 sodded or mulched one, although there are conditions in 

 which the response is as himiediate as in the latter case. 

 While the former cases predominate, some standard experi- 

 ments will be cited in which the trees have not responded to 

 fertilization and others in which results were obtained. 

 1 Computed in part from total yield, approximately correct. 



