A SURVEY OF SOME COMMERCIAL APPLE ORCHARDS IN VIRGINIA. 



This survey represents a part of my graduate work 

 on a minor subject in the Department of Horticulture. 

 Professor John Craig suggested the problem, outlined the 

 scope of the investigation and kindly supervised and criti- 

 cised the work during its progress, and I wish to acknow- 

 ledge the benefit I have derived from his helpful sug- 

 gestions. 



This is the first survey that has been attempted 

 to ascertain the conditions in the Virginia apple orchards. 

 Such investigations have been conducted elsewhere far more 

 thoroughly than this survey. Under Professor Craig's dir- 

 ection, the leading fruit-growing counties of New York 

 State have been surveyed and the results of the investi- 

 gations published in Cornell Agricultural Experiment 

 Station Bulletins 226, 229, 262 and 307. 



There are several reasons why a survey of the apple 

 orchards of Virginia is desirable. (1) The fruit growers 

 in any given locality desire to know how the fruit growers 

 in other localities are conducting the business. There 

 is no line of agricultural work in which the experience 

 of the "other fellow" is more helpful than in the growing 



