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N. H. AGR. EXPERIMENT STATION 



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variety, planted row for row alongside the old standard varieties, Baldwin and 

 Wealthy. Cost accounts are being made on this orchard, and it is expected 

 that at the end of ten or fifteen years the returns for each variety and the cost 

 of the production may be compared. 



The Stayman variety has been observed in several orchards in New Hamp- 

 shire this season. Ordinarily the climate here has been considered too cool to 

 produce a good quality of this variety. The apples in New Hampshire orchards 

 this year are of small size and, compared to southern-grown Stayman, may be 

 considered very small, although they would compare favorably with the good 

 commercial size of Baldwin. The color was excellent, and the keeping quality 

 appears to be very good. There is a possibility that this variety may be used 

 to a limited extent in favorable localities in this state. 



In the peach orc^iard the Carman varietj'^ proved hardiest in bud, having a 

 full crop of peaches. The planting of Carman constitutes about one-fourth 

 of the entire orchard and its crop constituted about one-half the total harvest. 

 This peach has been found difficult to market by growers of intermediate Atlan- 

 tic States such as Delaware and New Jersey, because it is a white peach 

 competing wdth more attractive yellow varieties grown in the far southern 

 states. The same condition was found to be true in the New Hampshire 

 markets, and the peaches of this variety were difficult to dispose of. Foster 

 is another white peach, which boie very heavily. There are only a few trees 

 of this variety in the orchard, but its production per tree compared favorably 

 with the Carman. In season it is later than the Carman, and has a more 

 ready market. J. H. Hale produced a relatively small crop of very fancy 

 peaches. These were large and of good quality, and found the most ready 

 market of all varieties grown. Elberta produced a fah crop, possibh' slightly 

 lighter than that of J. H. Hale. 



The Latham raspberry was set in the new raspberry plantation for trial in 

 comparison with Herbert and other standard red raspberries. 



Fertilizer on Strawberries. 



In 1922 about .8 acre of Senator Dunlap strawberries was divided into six- 

 teen fertilizer plots. Four treatments were given by S. W. Wentworth, each 

 treatment being repeated in four different plots in different parts of the field 

 in order to eliminate errors due to soil differences and moisture variations. 



Table IV. — Effect of nitrate of soda on yield of strawberries. 



Treatment. 



200 lbs. nitrate of soda in 

 fall plus same in spring. . . 



200 lbs. nitrate of soda ap- 

 plied in fall 



200 lbs. nitrate of soda ap- 

 plied in spring 



Check plots (no fertilizer) . . 



Plots. 



1-3-10-12 



2-4- 9-11 



6-8-13-15 

 5-7-14-16 



Average all 

 plots. 



3731 



4109 



3891 

 4068 



The results are shown in Table IV. The nitrate of soda produced no signifi- 

 cant difference in yield. This experiment is of considerable interest, because 



