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sod trees. The scald on the different lots May 4th is shown in 
the following statement: 
First Picking. Second Picking. 
mcaemOnls SOG fCUIt yo. seas 16.4 per ct. 18.7 per ct. 
Scald on tillage fruit....... 60.7 per ct. 29.0 per ct. 
“Tn 1907 two pickings were again made, the first October 7th, 
the second October 19th. The fruit from the sod trees was 
darker in color, and the color of both lots was better in the 
fruit of the second picking. All lots kept in prime condition 
till the end of the commercial storage season. There was a 
distinct difference in quality in favor of the apples from the 
cultivated land, the fruit from the sod trees though finer in 
color having a coarse texture and an insipid slightly bitter 
fiavor. 
“Jn 1908, the fruit was handled in a manner similar to that 
of 1906 and 1907. At the time this report is made, February ‘' 
8, 1909, there is considerable Baldwin spot in the different lots 
of fruit and the apples from the cultivated trees though of 
poorer color were finer in quality than the fruit from the sod 
trees.” 
Quality of the fruit—There is but little difference in the 
quality of the fruit when specimens can be had at the same 
degree of maturity. But as we have seen in the preceding 
paragraph the tissues of the sod-mulch fruit begin to break 
down so quickly after harvesting that at any time after this 
period the tilled fruit is better in quality. This hes been true 
in all of the five seasons, a fact affirmed by repeated testing 
by those in charge of this experiment; by experimenters in 
the United States Department of Agriculture, as stated in 
the preceding quotation from Mr. Powell; and attested by 
many who have seen the fruit at this Station, at horticultural 
meetings and at farmers’ institutes. The more pleasing color of 
the sod-mulch fruit leads many to think it is of higher quality 
but it requires only a taste to convince to the contrary. 
The difference in quality is due chiefly to a difference in the 
texture of the flesh. In eating, the tissues of the tilled fruit 
