New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
SUMMARY OF BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS IN 1906. 
Tit 
The principal features of the fifteen farmers’ business experi- 
ments are shown in the following table: 
Taste XIV.— SHow1ncG RESULTs oF BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS IN 1906. 







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Total Cost 
Number Increase | Net 
EXPERIMENT. b came of times in yield ee ae pee ae profit 
; sprayed. per acre. per dee spraying. | Pet acre. 
A. Bu. 
Chafee tir SOI. 10.4 5 49.8 $4 70 $0 94 $15 23 
Silver Springs.....| 22, 6 80.1 5 67 94 22.35 
Bataviadien . bra: 18 6 19.6 5i DZ 92 3 28 
Si leest GUN ae 13 5 29.1 4 74 95 6 92 
Odessa eta Pane: (hots) 5-6 47.5 6 90 ALS 12 10 
INTCROMS ears, « i: 17 9 60 8 47 94 18 51 
Coraltad yay. 20k 8 5 18 3 51004 1 02 4 05 
Memphis dsc. - 9.5 4 19.4 2°85 fal 4 92 
Ogdensburg...... G05 5 41.7 6 00 1,20 14 87 
Chateaugay....... 25 4 42.3 3 24 81 13 68 
Bers st, . 3 SE ae 9 4-5 Sits 3 34 73 9 26 
TEES effete Reg 5 gis: 75.6 4 24 1 41 26 02 
Woodbury. ss. 2... 8.7 3 36.3 3 84 1 28 19 76 
Riverhead........ 45 4-5 A. sing. Aa) 82 66 
Sagaponack...... 21 10 80.8 9 62 96 | Bus 
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Total area sprayed ir fifteen experiments, 225.6 acres. 
Average increase in yield per acre, 42.6 bushels. 
Average total cost of spraying per acre, $5.18. 
Average cost per acre for each spraying, 98.5 cents. 
Average net profit per acre, $13.80. 
SUMMARY OF BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS, 1903-1906. 
The following table shows the results of the farmers’ business 
experiments for four years, 1903 to 1906, inclusive: 
TABLE X V.— SHOWING RESULTS OF BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS, 1903-1900. 


Average Average | 
Number Total ees total cost #8 Average 
YEAR. of experi- area in “wield cost of per acre | net profit 
ments. sprayed. mead sae spraying for each per acre. 
P : per acre. | spraying. 
A. Bu. 
OO als Ara eae s@ 6 61.2 57 $4 98 $1 07 $23 47 
TRS OY A St ae 14 180 G2223 4 98 93 24 86 
LOSS ae a 13 160.7 46.5 4 25 98 20 04 
1906 mit Vac ee 15 225.6 42.6 des 9 85 13 89 


Average net profit for four years $20.51 per acre. 
