.-,4 W. VA. AGR. EXPERIMENT STATION [Bulletin 141 



1912. 



Spraying and pruning 36 . 70 



Sale of fruit on trees $150 . 00 



Net profits 113.25 



Total expense for 2 years $108 . 90 



Gross income 'for 2 years 



Net income for 2 years 286 . 10 



The Crane Orchard. 



An old orchard of 160 trees shown in figures 8 and 9, and owned 

 by Mr. Dee Crane of Terra Alta, has been given some attention by 

 this department for the past three years. The first year it was 

 pruned, the rough bark scraped from the trunks and limbs and 

 thoroughly sprayed with lime-sulphur solution, using arsenate of 



FIG. 9. Crane orchard after rejuvenation. The tree in the foreground illustrates proper 



pruning. 



lead as a poison. The processes with the exception of the scraping 

 have been repeated each year. No fertilizer has been added. The 

 orchard yielded practically nothing of any value before it was thus 

 partially renovated, but has produced in the years 1910, 1911 and 

 1912, 250 bushels, 400 bushels and 500 bushels respectively. This 

 has sold uniformly at $0.50 per bushel. 



