New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 145 
out the fact that a factor of error was introduced in cutting 
which affected the weights. This occurred as follows: The 
method of ridging every Saturday favored the cutting of larger 
stems, hence, of more primes, early in the week, but also more 
pounds of waste when bunched. Toward the end of the week 
as the ridges were worked down in cutting, careless cutters 
would cut too short making more culls but at the same time 
reducing the amount of waste in pounds when bunched. Fur- 
thermore, no two persons would get the same results in cutting, 
nor would the cuttings of one person be the same before and 
after a rain. Hence in 1900 the cuttings from seven sprayed 
rows were bunched by themselves, as were also those from the 
seven unsprayed rows, and a record kept of the bunches obtained 
at each cutting. This gave us not only the total yield of primes 
and culls in addition to total yield in pounds, from sprayed and 
unsprayed rows, but also the money value of the sprayed and 
unsprayed crops. As in 1899, the primes were sold for 14 cents 
and the culls for 6 cents a bunch. The following tables show 
only summaries of weights. The records of the weights and 
bunches of each cutting are too bulky to be presented in tabular 
form. 
TABLE III.—YIELD OF SPRAYED AND UNSPRAYED ASPARAGUS. 
SPRAYED, 
Row Row Row Row Row Row Row 
1. 3. 5. ‘ip 9. PEs 13. Total. 
Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 
RTs al das woe 0 93.4 115.4 116.8 114.4 106.9 102.8 115.1 764.8 
BEM ele wins ai o%s a « » 115.4. -127.0° °187.8* 125.6 120.8° 115.0 184.4, 876.5 
Et ies. 5 25's rah pO 4 ed, 1 Wiceg? 13.9 12.2 19937110 .T 
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UNSPRAYED. 
Row Row Row Row Row Row Row 
2: 4. 6. 8. 10. 12. 14, Total. 
- Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. T0383 Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 
BROOM. cited. 104.4 114.2 110.6 116.4 109.4 110.8 105.4 1771.2 
+ gt SR a 17.9 92.1 79.0 95.0 Th. 85.8 87.3. 592.4 
IOS Nacrehas als vactcicuete Str a2 8 31.6 21.4 84.1 25.0 18.1 178.8 
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