April. '15] 



HUNTER: ECONOMIC RESULTS OF YEAR 



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This was the same sj^stem that had been followed for the three 

 previous years. These apples were scored and tabulated under the 

 various injurious insects and plant diseases common to the apple. 

 Of the entire 26,244 collected throughout the entire season, there were 

 218, or 1.5 per cent sound apples. The remaining 98.5 per cent had 

 been checked in their growth and development by an injurious insect 

 or plant disease, or by the two combined. Of those which dropped 

 prematurely, the small percentage of sound apples might have their 

 fall attributed to the vdnd. 



The accompanying table illustrates this work in detail. 



Summary of Apple 'Counts of Intermittent Seasonal Spraying 





June 



July 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Per 





9 and 10 



8 and 9 



4 and 5 



2 and 3 



cent. 





1,526 



1,845 



2,940 



2, 659 



46.3 



Codling moth and bitter rot 





274 



945 



3,346 



23.9 



Codling moth, bitter rot and curculio 





3 



152 



556 



3.6 



Codling moth and blotch 





12 



508 



450 



4.9 



Codling moth and curculio 





18 



755 



1,296 



10.6 



Codling moth, blotch and curculio . 







53 



12 



.34 



Curculio 



496 



60 



100 



259 



4.63 



Curculio and bitter rot 





8 



55 



5 



.34 



Blotch 







15 



307 



1.64 



Blotch and curculio 







38 



240 



1.42 



Railroad worm 





5 



30 





.15 



Bitter rot 





13 



16 



11 



.20 



Scab 





7 



5 





.04 



CodHng moth and railroad worm . . 







13 





.06 



Sound apples 





218 



30 



42 



1.5 



Thinning drop 



6,833 











Codling moth and scab 





47 







.24 



Codling moth, bitter rot and blotch 









32 



.12 



Total 



8,855 



2,510 



5,628 



9,251 



100% 



Sum total 







26,244 







The question naturally arises, ''What of the marketable apples"? 

 Referring back to the last year's record for these same varieties, the 

 smallest average yield per tree was one and one-half barrels of sound 

 marketable fruit, in size, two and one-half inches, or better. This 

 year, from these same trees, the number of apples still remaining at 

 picking time averaged thirty-five to the tree, most of which were be- 

 low market size. Obviously, no count or tabulation of these would 

 serve any purpose. The climatic conditions this year were better 

 than the two previous years; the only features absent this year were 

 spraying and cultivation. 



The above condition represents the situation in this orchard at 



