New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 2438 
SUMMARY OF BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS IN 1908. 
TaBLE XVIII.—SHowiING RESULTS oF Business EXPERIMENTS IN 1908. 
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Increase Total Cost 
Number or cost of per acre | Net profit 
Experiment. Area of times | decrease | spraying | for each or loss 
sprayed. | sprayed. | in yield | per acre | spraying. | per acre. 
per acre. 
A Bu. 
Southampton..... 56 8 74.5 | $5.68 | $0.71 $53 .92 
Ogdensburg....... 5.5 7 68.5 5.22 75 48.58 
Chateaugay....... 10 +f 32.1 4.09 1.02 15.17 
Je tn: hig 9 ake ea ee TS i) 28/3 4.03 81 Lies 
Sterling Station... 9 5-6 20.4 5.188 .96 7.06 
rms0on. 2. aio d ZU0<1 (ites 1.46 5.65 
VSR iiss 975" 55. 0. 10 2 18.7 1293 97 9.29 
(FIOMRECACL. 0%... os 1s) 5 12.4 Say eS ocd 6. 
Watmiicanty <6 70S 20 3 7.2 2.78 .93 2.26 
ELSA OA LE ga err 19 4-5 20 2 Abs 64 —.83 
WEEMeSDOTE ok. cc. LF 4 1.4 3 or 88 —2 .32 
Interlaken si?) :... 10 4 |— 3 3.79 .95 —5.50 
Greenwich........ 8 4-5 |— 3.5 5, 4055 08 —7.71 
BE. Syracuse....... 4 5 |—20.8 5.12 1.02 | —23.84 

8 Average of 5 and 6 sprayings. 
* Average of 4 and 5 sprayings. 
10 For 5 sprayings. 
Average increase in yield per acre, 18.5 bushels. 
Average net profit per acre, $8.53. 
SUMMARY OF BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS, 1903-1908. 
TaBLE XIX.—SHOWING ReEsvULTs or Business EXPERIMENTS. 1903—1908. 



Average | Average 
Average total cost Average 
Number Total increase cost of per acre | net profit 
Year. of experi- area in yield | spraying | for each | per acre. 
ments. sprayed. | per acre | per acre. | spraying. 
A, Bu. 
Ue oa ne 6 61.2 57 $4 .98 $1.07 $23 .47 
ee ee 14 180 62.2 4.98 .93 24 .86 
DUGG  eenime t+ 2). 13 160.7 46.5 4.25 .98 20 .04 
AR a Oe 15 LAN) 42.6 ots .985 13.89 
SU) Finda tom th ea «5 14 152.76 36.8 5.90 fee hy Ti.08 
12) Mae ee, 14 200.25 18.5 4.30 .92 8.53 





Average increase in yield, for six years, 43.8 bu. per acre. 
_ Average net profit, for six years, $17.94 per acre. 
