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Title: Annual report of the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Board of Control
Subjects: New York State Agricultural Experiment Station Agriculture
Publisher: Geneva, N.Y. New York Agricultural Experiment Station under authority of Cornell University
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ts 72 cents per acre. These figures bring out the pointthat the cost of tillage is bound to vary greatly, depending uponland, tools, teams, number of cultivations and other factors. Thecost of cutting grass will be more nearly the same for all orchards. In conclusion, while unquestionably tillage is the best methodof caring for the majority of the apple orchards in New York, yetthere are particular places, soils and economic conditions underwhich the Hitchings method of sod-mulching apple trees may beused advantageously: 1 st. Orchards on steep hillsides where land would wash badlyunder tillage may often well be kept in sod. 2d. On land covered with rocks, trees may best stand in sod. 3d. The Hitchings method is adapted only to soils having suit-able depth. On shallow soils it will usually prove a failure. 4th. Soils must be retentive of moisture. On land that annuallysuffers from summer droughts the sod-mulch treatment will almostcertainly prove less beneficial to trees than tillage.
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New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 505 5th. Economic conditions may decide the choice between tillageand some mulching treatment, since the cost of caring for an orchardis so much less under the Hitchings mode of mulching than bytillage. Thus a larger acreage in sod may be made to counter-balance a greater productiveness under tillage, thereby bringingthe net income to the same level. INTRODUCTORY. In March, 1909, this Station published, in Bulletin No. 314, apreliminary report on a comparative test of growing apples undertillage and the Hitchings sod-mulch method. The work of whichthis first report is an account was carried on in the Auchter orcharda few miles west of Rochester, in the heart of the apple belt of westernNew York. In this orchard tillage was found to be the better treat-ment. In the present Bulletin, the second report, the test was con-ducted in the Hitchings orchard, near Syracuse, under widely dif-ferent conditions and as we shall see with very different resul

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