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Yields of apples. 

 Some instances of 

 from i o to 15 

 barrels of apples 

 per tree have been 

 reported by dif- 

 ferent orchardists. 

 In such cases the 

 trees are generally 

 very large, and the 

 crop may have 

 been preceded by 

 several years of 

 short bearing. Few 

 if any orchards are 

 able under present 

 systems of manage- 

 ment to average 

 such high yields. 



In some years 

 there is scarcely 

 any apple crop, 

 and the few apples 

 that are produced 

 are often not worth 

 the cost of pick- 

 ing. However, the 

 year preceding or 

 following a poor 

 year generally pro- 

 duces an abundant 

 yield, although in- 

 terference of frosts 

 may modify this 

 somewhat. Low 

 yields are common 

 with poor systems 

 of management. 



