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ORCHARD EXPENSE STATEMENT FOR 7 YEARS.* 



E. P. COHILL. 



The following detailed statement by Air. E. P. Cohill, Hancock, 

 of his seven-year-old thirty-acre orchard is most valuable as a guide 

 for V\>stern ^Maryland. This orchard was handled as follows : 



First Year. — Narrow strips cultivated along tree rows and 

 cowpeas grown in middles. 



Second Year. — Same as first year except that crimson clover 

 was grown instead of cowpeas. 



Third Year. — Same as second year. 



Fourth Year. — All of the ground cultivated until August when 

 red clover seed was sown. 



Fifth and Sixth Years. Strips cultivated along tree rows and 

 red clover left on middles until August when all of the ground was 

 plowed and seeded to red clover. 



Seventh Year. — All of the ground cultivated until August 15 

 when red clover seed was sown. Two hundred pounds per acre of 

 a mixture of 12 per cent, phosphoric acid and 5 per cent, potash, 

 were applied August 15. 



Hogs were pastured in the orchard from ]\Iay i to November 

 I during the first six years. Air. Cohill states that the manure and 

 clover plowed under in this orchard have increased the value of the 

 land at least twenty dollars per acre. 



There are 3.000 trees set 20 feet apart each way in the 30 acres. 

 They were planted in November, 1902, and April, 1903. Labor is 

 figured at 15 cents per hour. 



Statement by Air. E. P. Cohill, Plancock. 



3,000 trees, at 12c $ 360.00 



Plowing before planting 72.00 



1st year. 1903. 



Fertilizer and Tobacco Dust, 25.00 



Planting, 63,00 



Alanure, 75-00 



Cultivating 215,00 



Cowpeas and Clover seed, 78,00 



By Hog pasture, 84.00 



2nd year, 1904, 



Cultivating, 178.00 



Alanure 67.00 



Prunmg, 12.00 



By Hog pasture, 96.00 



3d year, 1905. 



Cultivating, 225.00 



Alanure, 120.00 



Pruning, 26.00 



By Hog pasture, 100.00 



*From Bulletin Xo. 144, "Apple Culture", Alaryland Agri. Exp. Station, 

 Page 262. 



