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ytear, but in 1911 and 1912 lime-sulphur has been applied. About 

 fifty Nickajack trees where the Bitter Rot has been troublesome, 

 have been sprayed three times in addition to the regular sprayings, 

 during the past two seasons. The orchard is now in a vigorous con- 

 dition and gives promise of being a heavy producer in the future. 

 The orchard produced a crop the first season, 1910, of 500 barrels 

 which were sold on the trees for $400, a price far below their real 

 worth. Practically no crop was produced in 1911, but in 1912 the 

 orchard yielded 833 barrels of firsts and seconds which sold for a 

 total of $1431.75. This does not include a considerable amount of 

 summer fruit sold locally, of which no record has been made. 



Financial Statement. 



Cost of cleaning up land $1 00 . 00 



.Manure and straw applied, 200 loads @ $0.75 150.00 



Cost of spraying to date 80 . 00 



Cost of picking and hauling 833 barrels 150.00 



Cost of 833 bbls. @ $0.37 . 308.21 



Total expense $788 . 21 



Cash from sale of fruit 1910 $ 400 . 00 



Cash from sale of fruit 1912 1,431 . 75 



Total $ 1,831 . 75 



Net profit for first three years $ 1,043 . 54 



The Stone Orchard. 



In the spring of 1910, Spencer Stone's orchard of 738 Rome 

 trees, 22 years old, located at Vienna four miles from Park- 

 ersburg, was taken under the advisary control of the Horticultural 

 Department. The orchard was in a fair state of health, but had not 

 been a good producer. In 1905 it received the only spraying it ever 

 received, and that year produced its largest crop, 225 barrels. 



Mr. Stone, acting on advice from this department, gave the 

 orchard a good pruning, and put it under thorough cultivation. 

 The Station did some experimental spraying in a part of the orchard 

 and Mr. Stone sprayed the remainder. The careful performance 

 of this work was quickly and liberally rewarded with a crop the 

 first season. A severe freeze and cold wind on May 7th killed the 

 blossoms on about half the orchard which had a southwestern ex- 

 posure, but the other half with a northeastern exposure set fruit 

 and produced 488 barrels. A good cover crop of cowpeas was also 

 grown and plowed under the following spring. The spraying, cul- 

 tivation and pruning were carefully looked after in 1911 and a yield 

 of 2208 barrels was secured. After two such crops as this the 1912 



