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Show CARING FOR DWARF APPLES New York Experiment Station Has Four Orchards In Different Parts of the Empire State. The New York experiment station has four dwarf apple orchards in different dif-ferent parts of the state, three oi which were planted to test the claims made for dwarf apples. These are that (fwarf trees come In bearing earlier than standards; that orcharo, operations are more easily performed, and that the fruit is of higher color and better quality from dwarf trees. The three orchards have been planted five years, giving ample opportunity to find out whether these advantages are rcI in New York. The dwarfs do come In bearing somewhat earlier than the standards, but the difference is not appreciable from a financial standpoint. Instead of the cost of care being less for the dwarfs, it has been found to be considerably more in all of the orchards, and the most of dwarf trees is greater. There is no difference in color, size or flavor between the trees on dwarf and standard stand-ard stocks in these orchards. Disad- Apple Picker Used on Fruit Farm. vantages of the dwarfs are that it is difficult to get trees on stocks known to be true dwarf or half dwarf, as the case may be; the loss of trees Is much greater, and the trees are shorter lived. From the orchards in charge of the station there seems to be no future for dwarf trees in commercial orcharding in this state, or If at all, only as fillers, or, barely possibly, in the growing of one or two varieties, as Mclutosh and Lady, which seem to do rather better than other varietiel on dark stocks. |