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16 per cent less fruit, but about 10 per cent more 
No. 1 fruit than did the unthinned Baldwin. With 
the second method Baldwin, thinned, gave 26 per 
cent less fruit and about 22 per cent more No. 1 
fruit than did the corresponding trees which were 
not thinned. 
“With the third method, Hubbardston gave 25 
per cent less fruit, but about 17 per cent more 
No. 1 fruit than did the unthinned Hubbardston. 
“The Greenings were very heavily loaded in 
1895, and in 1896 they bore a good crop, but were 
not overburdened, and needed comparatively little thin- 
ning. They were thinned according to the second 
method, and gave 6 per cent more fruit and about 
10 per cent more first-class fruit than the trees did 
which were not thinned. 
“In all these tests the picked fruit gave about 
one bushel of culls where the fruit was thinned, to 
three bushels where it was not thinned. Where the 
fruit was thinned the “drops” were fewer and con- 
siderably better, and in all grades the fruit was 
clearly superior in size and color to fruit of the same 
grade which was not thinned. The first grade in- 
cluded no apples less than two and one-half inches in 
diameter, and the proportion which measured two and 
one-half inches was a great deal larger where the 
fruit was thinned than where it was not, so that No. 
2 apples from trees which were thinned were much 
superior to the No. 2 fruit from trees not thinned. 
Mr. Wilson [in whose orchard the tests were made] 
estimates that the fruit from the trees which were 
