A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF CORNELL UNI- VERSITY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY G. F. WARREN ITHACA, NEW YORK 1905 - THE APPLE INDUSTRY OF Wayne and of Orleans Counties, New York . Acknowledgments are due to the one thousand or more farmers without whose cooperation the work could not have been done to Professor John Craig, at whose suggestion I undertook the work, for many helpful suggestions and for reading the manu- script and proof suggestions and for reading the proof to Director L. H. Bailey for many valuable to Mr. Christian Bues, who was my co-worker in the field work in Orleans County, and who read the manuscript of Part I to Mr. Cornelius Betten for reading the manuscript Whetzel for reading parts of the proof. and to Professor Bonsteel and Mr. Figures 44, 48, 75, 78, 79, 82, 92 and the figures in Part II were furnished by the Department of Horticulture. Figure 85 was furnished by Professor Slingerland. 380017 PART I. THE APPLE INDUSTRY OF WAYNE COUNTY, NEW YORK. G. F. WARREN.