New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 401 
October 13, the crop of fruit was gathered. The picked fruit 
was sorted into but two grades, namely barrel-fruit and culls. 
The apples were quite free from scab and insect injury. Some 
fruits had been attacked by late brood codlin moth, but the 
greater part of the culls consisted of apples which were too 
small to barrel. It was very noticeable that there was a much 
larger percentage of fruit too small to barrel in Row 4, which 
had been sprayed in bloom, than from either Row 2 or 3 which 
were not so sprayed. The fruit from Rows 2 and 3 averaged 
so much larger in size that Mr. Frank Bradley estimated that it 
would sell at from 25 cents to 50 cents more per barrel than the 
fruit from Row 4. At the ruling prices this was a gain of from 
20 per ct. to 40 per ct. in price in favor of the fruit from trees 
not sprayed in bloom. 
Why the fruit from the trees sprayed in bloom should in this 
test grade smaller and in other tests grade larger than trees not 
sprayed in bloom is not quite clear. Possibly because the spray- 
ing was done at a time when it killed a large percentage of the 
first blossoms to open. These are the strong, vigorous blos- 
soms in the center of the cluster, which usually take the lead 
in growth and which naturally may be expected to make the 
largest fruit. Perhaps there were more small apples in Row 4 
because next south of it. in Row 5 stood large, thrifty Baldwin 
trees. These Baldwins doubtless sent vigorous roots into the 
soil, towards the Hubbardston trees and made it somewhat 
more difficult for trees in Row 4 to get the material with which 
to make large fruit than it was for the trees in Rows 2 and 3 
which were surrounded by trees much smaller than the Bald- 
wins. 
The following table shows the total yield for each tree. 
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