. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 22 Neav Hampshire Experiment Station [Bulletin 223 26 per cent, of all the non-bearing trees in the commercial orchards of the state, which is more than sufficient to replace losses. Some 33 per cent of the bearing commercial trees of the state are found in 460-odd orchards, which \arv from 100 to 300 trees in size. In this grouji there are no doubt many growers who gi\e indifferent care and who l)roduce poor fruit. If the number of bearing trees in each orchard may be taken as an index of the grower's success in the apple industiy and his intention to
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 22 Neav Hampshire Experiment Station [Bulletin 223 26 per cent, of all the non-bearing trees in the commercial orchards of the state, which is more than sufficient to replace losses. Some 33 per cent of the bearing commercial trees of the state are found in 460-odd orchards, which \arv from 100 to 300 trees in size. In this grouji there are no doubt many growers who gi\e indifferent care and who l)roduce poor fruit. If the number of bearing trees in each orchard may be taken as an index of the grower's success in the apple industiy and his intention to increase liis business, these men are on the average the least successful. However, in the group in which the average size of orchard is 150 trees we note that there are for each orchard 57 non- bearing trees, or more than 33 per cent of the number of bearing ti'ees. In the group which averages 250 trees per orchard there are 60 non- bearing trees per orchard or slightly more than 25 per cent. Considered I)ocV)C*.5 W^gcTW-r NorlV>ern Spy GrAveosteiD Delicious Weajmy n^lr^losV. Ra.]<3vs/in. _L f^ IT Beb-Tj-ng ^^^1 ;er>t N'p.' o^ Tree ^ ]'"I(iUKE 6. Number of trees nf imiinrtant Cdnimercial varieties classified as bearing and non-bcariiii;. fiom this ])oint of view, the outlook is encouraging. Tlie men who own these orchards would not liaAC as high a itrojioition of non-bearing trees if on the whole they were not ^ful and satisfuMl witli the results from their older plantations. A study of the distribution of 1li(> individual orchards within tliis group has not been attempted. Were such possible, it would tmdoubtedly give us further interesting information. Today, if we inquire into ihc history of some of the best fruit farms in New Hampshire we find that 20 j'ears ago they were gencriJ farms on which 100 or 200 trees were prov-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
Size: 1181px × 2116px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthornewhampshireagricultu, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920
