40 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I912. 



'•educed the total orchard area given in Table ii to 33 acres, — 

 making, with the addition of the scattering trees, a total of 

 about 2300 in the fall of 1911. 



A comparison of the yields (Tables 12 and 13) from 1909 

 to 191 1 inclusive emphasizes the progress more concretely. 





Table 12. 







Annual Yields, ipop-ipii. 





Year 



Number of trees 

 (approximate) . 



Total yield in 

 barrels. 



Marketable. 



1909 



3,100 



200 



90 



1910 



2,300 



350 



275 



1911 



2,300 



2,450 



2 ,336* 



* Consisting of 2,006 barrels of Fancy and No. 1 grades and 330 barrels No. 2 grade. 



Table 13. 

 Annual Yields by Orchards. 



1910. 



1911 



Baldwin ] 



146 



Baldwin . . 



154 



Ben Davis, No. 1 



Ben Davis, No. 1 



Ben Davis, No. 3 1 



\ . . . 



1 ,600 



Ben Davis, No. 3 



204 



231 



Scattering 



Ben Davis, No. 2 . 



Scattering J 



Ben Davis, No. 2 



465 



Total 



350 



Total 



2 ,450 



The foregoing account of the conditions existing at Highmoor 

 three years ago and of the results since obtained has been made 

 with recognition of the fact that the work so far described has 

 had in itself nothing of experimental nature. Such work was 

 simply a matter of necessity, being incidental to the establish- 

 ment of the necessary conditions requisite for experimental 

 plots. 



On the other hand, while the function of the Station lies in 

 general outside the sphere of purely demonstration work, these 

 results, secondary as they are from the experimental point of 

 view, have value in indicating the possibilities of this kind of 



