241 Miscellaneous Products. 



September, 1908.J 



To return again to the yield per section, 

 we find that several others approach 

 very closely the yield of section I. as 

 follows :— 



Value. 



Section T. at the rate of 487-76 



crates per acre ... $771 '03 



Section P. at the rate of 483-62 



crates per acre ... 769-72 



Section E. at the rate of 488*55 



crates per acre ... 766'25 



Section M. at the rate of 484-84 



crates per acre •• 763-94 



Section O. at the rate of 488-59 



crates per acre ... 763-30 



Section Q.* at the rate of 474-28 



creat« per acre ... 756'40 



Section U. at the rate of 475-00 



crates per acre ... 750'00 



Section V. at the rate of 472-00 



crates per acre ... 740'33 



Computing the value of two of the 

 poorest sections we find them to be as 

 follows : — 



Value. 



Section B. at the rate of 283 -95 



crates per acre ... 428*44 



Section R. at the rate of 324'44 



crates per acre ... 483-05 



Computing the value of the poorest 



plot — plot 69 Section R — we find it to be 



as follows :— 



Value. 



24 30's equivalent to 120 crates 



per acre at $1-65 ... $198 00 



5 42's equivalent to 17-86 crates 



per acre at 1-10 ... 19'94 



Total 137-86 crates $217 '64 



Comparing the best and poorest sec- 

 tions and the best and poorest plots we 

 we have the following results : — 



Vaule. 



Best section— I 498*26 crates 



per acre ... ... 786.92 



Poorest section— B 283-31 crates 



per acre ... ... 422*44 



Difference 211*31 crates 



per acre ... ... $358-38 



Best plot— plot 35—537*50 crates 



per acre ... ... 869*375 



Poorest— plot 69— 137*85 crates 



per acre ... ... 217-640 



Difference 399*64 crates 



per acre ... ... 651-735 



*Since the gathering of the first crop this section 

 has deteriorated very greatly. 



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We believe, therefore, that the experi- 

 ment fully demonstrates that there is 

 good profit to those growing pineapples 

 under shade on the East Coast, in applying 

 as high as the equivalent of 3,750 pounds 

 per acre of a fertilizer analyzing 4 per 

 cent, phosphoric acid, 5 per cent, nit- 

 rogen, and 10 per cent, potash, but that 

 beyond this amount there is but little if 

 any profit. Just how far this will apply 

 to pineapples grown in the open we can- 

 not say, though it seems to be generally 

 conceded that less fertilizer is required 

 under sheds than in the open, and, this 

 being the case, it is quite possible that 

 the amount to be used in the open might 

 profitably be increased beyond the 

 amount here specified for sheds. 



Crop op 1904. 



No such decisive conclusions can be 

 drawn from the crops of 1904 and 1905, 

 but this is undoubtedly due to causes 

 other than fertilizers. The shortness of 

 the crop for 1904 may possibly be attri- 

 buted to the fact that the plants were 

 somewhat exhausted from having 

 yielded so full a crop in 1903. , Certainly 

 the fact that in many cases the plots 

 receiving the least fertilizer gave the 

 largest yield, would indicate that it was 

 not want of fertilizer that caused the 

 short crop. It would hardly seem fair 

 to undertake to draw many conclusions 

 from a crop which is less than one-third 

 of a total possibility. Unfortunately, 

 we failed to get a record of the fall and 

 winter crop for either 1903 or 1904. Could 

 this crop have been added to the sum- 

 mer crop for 1904, it is quite possible 

 that the showing would have been dif- 

 ferent, as we would naturally expect so 

 small a summer crop to be followed by a 

 heavy fall and winter crop. The fall and 

 winter crop for 1903 was small on 

 account of the heavy summer crop, and 

 therefore would not have materially 

 affected the total. 



Crop of 1905. 



The freeze of February, 1905, explains 

 the shortage of the crop for this year, 

 and again it would seem unfair to draw 

 many conclusions, for undoubtedly the 

 fertilizers had little to do with the fall- 

 ing off. At the same time a careful 

 count will show that the number of 24's 

 has been considerably increased on many 

 of the plots as the fertilizer was in- 

 creased, while the 42's were decreased 

 but slightly. In the upper half of the 

 plot (see Diagram III., crop of 1905), it 

 will be noticed that the total number of 

 pines has increased from the first to the 

 third line of plots, while in the fourth 

 the total is less than in the third line, 



