AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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TABLE III. — Early and Late Setting. 



Varieties. 



Early Ruby. 

 1st setting. 

 2d " . 

 3d " ■ 



Atlantic. 

 1st setting. 

 2d " . 

 3d " . 



New Jersey. 

 1st setting. 

 2d " . 

 3d '• . 



Beauty. 



1st setting. 

 2d •' . 

 3d " . 



bD 







Z 



.i . 



P 





















jj 



a 



s -J 



C a 



— 3 





C3 



ft 

 o 





^ft 





03 



O 



> ft 



> 



> ? 



o 



^ 



< 



< 



< 



May 19. 



8 



22.6 



5.87 



4.2 



June 1. 



11 



13.3 



4.47 



4.2 



" 15. 



11 



7.7 



1.69 



3.5 



May 19. 



12 



10.2 



2.14 



3.4 



June 1. 



10 



9.3 



1.89 



3.2 



" 15. 



12 



5.3 



0.98 



2.9 



May 19. 



12 



12.8 



5.19 



6.5 



June 1. 



12 



12.0 



5.00 



6.7 



" 15. 



12 



4.4 



1.33 



4.8 



May 19. 



12 



18.4 



7.10 



6.2 



June 1. 



10 



16.6 



6.60 



6.4 



" 15. 



12 



1.4 



0.17 



1.9 



July 29. 

 26. 

 22. 



Aug. 1. 

 July 29. 

 22. 



Aug. 9. 



Aug. 9. 

 " 1. 



From the table we learn first of all, that the first ripe fruits, in 

 every instance save one, were obtained from the plants set latest. 

 This fact, however, is not necessarily an indication of earliness, 

 as the late-set plants wei'e older than is usually desirable for set- 

 ting and the first fruits were in some cases from blossoms formed 

 while in the house. After these had ripened there was a long 

 interval before others followed. 



Without exception, the average number of fruits and the aver- 

 age weight of the product per plant, was in direct ratio with the 

 earliness of setting, — a direct confirmation of results obtained 

 last year. The average weight of individual fruits was not essen- 

 tially different in the first two settings, but was decidedly less in 

 the last lot. 



2. Effects of Bagging Fruit : The editor of one of the lead- 

 ing agricultural papers* last year suggested covering the fruit with 

 paper bags, as a means of inducing early ripening, claiming that 

 in this way maturity might be hastened by several days. It is 

 impracticable to cover individual fruits, but whole clusters on dif- 

 ferent plants of several varieties were covered and duplicate clus- 

 ters of the same age were marked for comparison. 



The following notes indicate the results : 



* Rural New Yorker. 



