Reduce Help Needed To Operate 

 The Hydraulic Sprayer 



By constructing a series of foot 

 operated levers from a barrel 

 mounted on top of the spray tank to 

 a shut-off valve in the pressure line 

 it is possible for one man to control 

 the spray from a boom at the back 

 of a hydraulic machine. He can, at 

 the same time, used a hand gun or 

 broom to hit extra high tops, tips of 

 limbs, or centers of trees not covered 

 by the boom. With this very flexible 

 arrangement we have been able to 

 get excellent coverage, even with con- 

 siderable breeze, and with quite a 

 reduction in volume of spray ma- 

 terial used. 



R. Eggert 



Frozen Applesauce Made By 

 Processing Unpeeled Fruit Can Make 

 An Attractive Commercial Product 



Apples thoroughly washed and 

 cleaned were cooked without peel- 

 ing, and produced, after freezing, 

 extremely attractive sauces, ranging 

 in color from nearly clear white 

 through buff, pineapple, pink, lav- 

 ender, to deep red-purple. The color 

 of the product was varied by blend- 

 ing varieties. The color produced by 

 a specific variety remained constant 

 and could be obtained at any time 

 during the early part of storage. 



Sauce stored without freezing de- 

 veloped the usual spots of concen- 

 trated color which made the product 

 appear to be spoiled. Color broke 

 down in a warm (70°F), dark stor- 

 age. Sauce which was frozen in glass 

 and held at 0°F for two months did 

 not fade noticeably when placed in 

 direct sunlight for one week at a 

 room temperature of 70°F. 



It would appear that displaying 

 sauce of different colors in glass 

 might greatly increase its attractive- 

 ness and sales, and would permit the 

 buyer to select a product of high 

 quality and color to harmonize with 



any color scheme carried out for the 

 n'eal to be served. 



R. Eggert 



It Pays to Mulch Pear Trees 



Hay mulch benefits young pear 

 trees. This has been shown in a test 

 started with two-year-old trees grow- 

 ing on a thin dry soil. Trees un- 

 nmlched, but fertilized with nitrogen, 

 have made little shoot growth and are 

 very weak. Those mulched with hay, 

 whether receiving nitrogen or not, 

 have made good growth. The aver- 

 age annual shoot growth in 1950 

 was about ten times greater where 

 hay mulch was used, regardless of 

 whether or not they were fertilized 

 with nitrogen. Young Clapp's Fav- 

 orite trees mulched with hay bore a 

 few fruits in 1950, whereas non- 

 mulched pear trees have not yet pro- 

 duced fruit. 



L. P. Latimer 



Fertilizing Lowbush Blueberries 



Fertilizing low bush blueberries 

 will invigorate the bushes so that 

 burning can be delayed one more 

 \ear. In blueberry fields that have 

 become devitalized to the extent that 

 they have to be burned every other 

 year in order to maintain production, 

 fertilizers will invigorate the plants 

 and keep them in production one or 

 two years longer. This is an ad- 

 vantage because during the year of 

 burning there is no crop - — the area 

 is out of production. We have been 

 able, by the use of commercial fer- 

 tilizer at the rate of 1.000 lbs. per 

 acre, to keep a blueberry field in 

 production for three consecutive 

 years without burning, while the un- 

 treated areas have not produced a 

 crop for the last two seasons. It 

 would not be advisable to eliminate 

 burning indefinitely because the 

 stems of the blueberries become more 

 branched every year and after four 

 growing seasons they are so branched 



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