222 



EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



areas are peculiar to berries of the Early Black variety, be- 

 ing only occasionally found on Howes and McFarlins. Counts 

 of berries having such areas in samples taken from diiferent 

 plots and varieties are given in the following table, as knowl- 

 edge concerning this may have value : — 



Table X. 



jSTote the much larger proportion of rough berries from the 

 bee plot as compared with those from any of the other plots. 

 X"ote also the much smaller proportion of such berries produced 

 by fertilizer Plot 15 as compared with the other Early Black 

 plots. Plot 15 was treated in 1911, and again in 1912, with 

 200 pounds of nitrate of soda, 400 pounds of acid phosphate 

 and 200 pounds of high-grade sulfate of potash. Plot 22 was 

 a check plot without fertilizer. Plots B, C, D and E were the 

 sprayed fungus plots already discussed. The fact that the fruit 

 from D and E was practically the same in this respect as that 

 from their checks tends to indicate that the roughness was not 



