Annual report of the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station (1914) (14595176519)

Identifier: annualreportofbo3311newy (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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iological functions. It may be well to state atthis point that since 1911 these trees have never yielded as large acrop even with subsequent ringing. In the early part of June, 1911, 27 of the seedling trees which hadbeen ringed the previous year were again subjected to the removal ofa strip of bark one inch in width directly above the former rings.The bark peeled off from the wood this year with as great ease as ithad before. Within a few days new bark was seen to be forming fromthe hardened cambium over the entire surface of every wound. Atthe end of the growing season an entire, new coating of bark wasjoined to the old upon either side of the ring. Apparently the treeshad suffered no ill effects from the ringing. All seemed to be in avigorous, thrifty condition and upon comparison with unringed treesno difference could be found in the amount of growth. The 27 trees ringed produced in 1911 an average of 93 per ct. of acrop per tree and in 1912, 43 per ct. From these figures the fact
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New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 617 stands out clearly that the heavy crop in 1911 resulted in an off-yearand a light yield in 1912, as is so often the case with many standardvarieties of apples. The second ringing apparently had no influencein increasing the yield. The health and vigor of the trees seemed notto be decreased. All except two showed, at the close of the season,complete new bark formation. The two trees in question had failedto cover the entire ring and were not as vigorous as the others. Itis possible that these trees lacked vigor from the time of planting. In the early part of June, 1912, additional ringing was performedupon these same trees. This time rings 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21inches in width were made, four trees being used for each of the variouswidths. These wounds were made around the trunks just above theformer rings, all of the bark, whether in three-inch strips ortwenty-one inch strips, being removed with equal ease. This ringinghad no effect up