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material for the manufacture of various products. The following 

 tabular statement furnished by Professor Davidson is useful here for 

 the further consideration of American standards and for comparison 

 of foreign and American varieties: 



TABLE IX. Analyses of apple must b>/ R. J. Davidson, Virginia Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, Blacksburg, 1901. 



CRAB APPLES. 



APPLES. 



These analyses are the results of but one season's work, and hence 

 do not warrant extended discussion or comparisons with the analyses of 

 fruits from other sections of this country or from foreign countries. 

 It is distinctly noticeable that the crabs show a better analysis as cider 

 fruits than the apples. In this latter list, however, there are no dis- 

 tinctly cider varieties. While there are a large number of these special 

 sorts in our plantations, none have yet fruited. A number of analyses 

 of fruits from the station orchard were made at the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture, and these are 

 here inserted, forming Table X. The averages of specific gravity 

 readings at the two places are remarkably close, but in other points 

 there are differences to be accounted for, partially at least, by the 

 fact that the varieties examined in the two laboratories were only in 

 part the same. 



