CHAPTER XVI 

 YIELDS 



Good yields are absolutely essential to insure profit 

 from any orchard enterprise. The most detailed care may 

 be given to an orchard, but if it is made up of poor yield- 

 ing varieties or if the soil or climate is not suitable for 

 production, good care is only time and money wasted. 



In the first place, it is important to secure good yielding 

 varieties. Most standard varieties of the present day 

 yield fairly well, but many new and untried yet widely 

 advertised sorts are very poor annual bearers. Ben Davis, 

 Baldwin, Winesap, Stayman, Jonathan, York, Rhode 

 Island Greening, and Rome Beauty are old and standard 

 varieties, the high yielding qualities of which are well 

 known. Yellow Newtown and Yellow Bellflower are 

 heavy bearing in certain sections, particularly in the 

 Watsonville district of California. In Virginia the light 

 bearing Yellow Newtown (Albemarle Pippin) and the 

 Arkansas (Black Twig) are not being planted as extens- 

 ively as the more prolific York Imperial and Stayman. 

 Among earlier varieties, Oldenburg (Duchess), Wealthy, 

 Gravenstein and Maiden Blush are classed as reliable 

 bearers. Yellow Transparent does well in some sections, 

 but yields light crops in other regions. Northern Spy 

 requires a score of years to come into profitable bearing, 

 while the famous Delicious, despite its many excellent 

 qualities, in some sections is only a moderate cropper. 



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