New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 295 
‘TABLE ].—,EFFECT OF RINGING ON YIELD OF RIPE TOMATOES. 
EARLY YIELD, NOVEMBER IO-~DECEMBER I4. 



, Average | Average Average 
Total Total Total : : 
number | number | weight of Fah cab cbae peeye of accu oF 
plants. fruits. fruits. Pea ce PUL PY Ey ee eee 
plant. plant. fruits. 
sgh Ozs. | aS Ozs. 
1st yo 2h SE a 45 460 | 1769.8 LOD Fe eS Fr Gi AA es Aen pe 
moarringing si 8). 46 509 1920. Vt od AST OM, PA Taupe 
NOI Ce a a Fs wih ds 46 484 es eas: 10°05 39. Oe oo oe ee 

TOTAL YIELD, NOVEMBER IO-JANUARY I2. 
JS gous Se a 45 876 2833. 19.5 63. aeeo 
PMGMINOIN, see. fl. 46 978 3054.2 2193 66.4 ayn bye 
SPO fea Neel ota 46 1093 3464.5 2348 To. 3 ai 







An examination of this part of the table shows that there 
was practically no difference between the plants of the first 
ringing and the check in the average number of fruits per 
plant or weight of the fruit. The second ringing appears to 
have increased the average number of ripe fruits slightly with 
a corresponding increase in weight. These differences are not 
large enough to be beyond the range of fortuitous variation and 
yet since all conditions were so uniform in the experiment 
they may be taken as an expression of actual gain for the second 
ringing. 
The results for the entire experiment are given in the second 
half of Table I. This gives the record of ripe fruit to January 
12 at which time the experiment was discontinued, as the bulk 
of the crop had then been ripened. The results do not include 
tle unripe fruits on the plants on January 12. 
These figures show that the average number of fruits per plant 
was reduced 18 per ct. by the first ringing and Io per ct. by the 
second ringing. ‘The average loss in weight per plant due to the 
first ringing was 16 per ct., and the loss due to the second ringing 
was 12 per ct. There was but little variation between the average 
weight per fruit in the different groups, the difference in the case of 
the first ringing being a gain of only six one-hundredths of an 
ounce, and in the second ringing a loss of five one-hundredths of 
an ounce. These differences are not worth considering. 
Effect on color and flavor of fruit— With the tree fruits and 
the grape, ringing usually changes the color and the flavor of the 
product. The color in most cases is heightened and the quality 
is not so good. Because of differences in these respects, horticul- 
