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Excerpt from 
"Osage Orange and Wildlife" --Douglas E. Wade. 
This particular sturdy hedge fruited well both in 1938 and 
1939. During the fall of the latter year I estimated that 
there were about 700 fruits produced by 33 trees. On January 
13, 1940, I made a careful count of the fruit present. Six 
"apples" were lodged in the trees; on the ground were 294 fruits.

The average weight of 66 of these apples, picked at random, was 
14.5 ounces. The heaviest fruit weighed 26 ounces, the lightest 
four ounces. Some of the larger fruits calipered four and a 
half inches in diameter. A trip late in March revealed that 146 
fruits remained and still were being used by the squirrel. 
Pennsylvania Game News, Vol. XI, No. II, February, 1941 
pp. 10, 32.