hdy, 1919 B ETTE R FRU IT 



Advises Increased Apple Tree Plantings 



Page 13 



IN an article recently issued by the 

 Bureau of Information of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture it is 

 advised that increased plantings of apple 

 trees be made to take care of an in- 

 creased demand which it says is coming 

 and will continue. Commercial apple 

 growers in the United States must meet 

 any such increased demand without in- 

 creased acreage, and little can be done 

 toward immediately increasing the sup- 

 ply when an unusual demand appears. 



Must Increase Plantings 

 Taking the United States as a whole, 

 there has been very little planting of 

 apple trees since 1910. Comparatively 

 few young trees, therefore, are coming 

 into bearing at this time. This is shown 

 by an investigation of the commercial 

 apple industry recently made by the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. Indeed, the largest single com- 

 mercial apple-producing section in the 

 United States has reached its maximum 

 production, and unless the planting rate 

 increases a decline is to be expected. 



The region is Western New York, 

 which early in the sixties became and 

 has since remained the center of com- 

 mercial apple production in the United 

 States. Western New York has pro- 

 duced regularly about one-fourth of the 

 normal commercial apple crop of the 

 country. But most of the present bear- 

 ing trees were planted in the late sixties 

 and early seventies and are now nearly 

 fifty years old. Vigor and productivity 

 continue longer in Western New York 

 than anywhere else in the country, per- 

 haps, yet they cannot be maintained in- 

 definitely, and the center of production 

 may be expected to shift. Similar de- 



clines are taking place in what is 

 known as the New England Baldwin 

 belt, including portions of Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, 

 but as this has never represented more 

 than five per cent of the total commer- 

 cial production it is of relatively less 

 importance. 



Other Production Centers. 



In latter years two comparatively 

 new commercial apple regions have 

 come into large production — the Pacific 

 Northwest and the Shenandoah-Cum- 

 berland region of Virginia, West Vir- 

 ginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The 

 former is producing now almost as 

 many commercial apples as New York, 

 and the latter is producing about half 

 as many. Roughly speaking. New York, 

 the Pacific Northwest and the Shenan- 

 doafi-Cumberland produce about five- 

 eighths of all the commercial apples 

 grown in the United States. The 

 Shenandoah-Cumberland region is yet 

 only approaching its maximum produc- 

 tion. In the Northwest there was con- 

 siderable planting of unsuitable lands, 

 but Western production is being sta- 

 bilized and will continue to be an in- 

 creasingly important factor in the apple 

 industry. 



Other regions of considerable com- 

 mercial apple production now are the 

 Piedmont district of Virginia, the Hud- 

 son Valley, Southern Ohio, Western 

 Michigan, Southern and Western Illi- 

 nois, the Ozark Mountain region of 

 Arkansas and Missouri, the Missouri 

 River region of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas 

 and Nebraska, the Arkansas Valley re- 

 gion, California and Colorado. 



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The Furry Fruit and Produce Co., 

 organized a short time ago, is building 

 a $5,000 warehouse at Yakima. The 

 members of the new company are C. M. 

 Furry, former manager of the Growers' 

 Service Company, and W. D. McNair. 



Garden Cutworms 



Cutworms are among tlie most troub- 

 lesome insects with which the gardener 

 has to deal. They are familiar to most 

 persons, and anyone engaged in garden- 

 ing for any length of time has to con- 

 tend with these pests, as they are what 

 are termed "general feeders," attacking 

 plants of almost every description. 



Tomatoes, cabbages, sweet potatoes, 

 lettuce and other truck plants, espe- 

 cially those which are started under 

 glass and transplanted, are subject to 

 more or less serious injury by cut- 

 worms. These pests appear sometimes 

 in great numbers in the spring and 

 early summer, and frequently do severe 

 Injury before they are noticed. 



Cutworms are not at all difficult to 

 control, and there are several methods 

 by which this may be accomplished. 

 The best, however, is the poisoned bait 

 or poisoned bran mash. The following 

 formula is for use in a small garden: 

 White arsenic, quarter pound; syrup or 

 molasses, one pint; water, four to six 

 quarts; dry bran, one peck. 



Thoroughly mix the arsenic in a peck 

 of dry bran. Stir into four to six quarts 

 of water a pint of cheap syrup or 

 molasses. After this has been made up 

 into a mash let it stand for several 



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