effective. Clouds, haze, or fo™ reduce the ultraviolet light 

 reaching the apple and are therefore unfavorable to rich coloring. 

 Big, red ppples indicate vigor pnd vitality just as p rosy com- 

 plexion indicates health and good nutrition in the human. 



Ar e Blueberries Self Fe rtile? 



Can vprieties of cultivated blueberries be plrjited in 

 Ip.rge blocks of single varieties or must provision be mpde for 

 crross pollination to insure fruitf )j.lness? Experiments cprried 

 on at Amherst during 1935 f'-^^ 193^ indicpte thpt no vpriety cpn 

 be relied uoon to set berries enough for a full crop, '"'ithout cross 

 pollination. Of the sixteen vprieties tested, half can be con- 

 sidered PS prpcticplly self unfruitful and the other half ps partly 

 self fruitful. Of the vprieties recommended for commercial plpnt- 

 ing. Pioneer is self unfruitful pnd Cabot and Rubel pre partly self 

 fruitful. Until more information is available it seems vilse to 

 plant at least tvo varieties to Insure f ruitfulncss. (J.S.Bailey). 



Mo t es on Strav^berry and Raspberry Varieties 



The Kov/ard Supreme strawberry again outyielded all other 

 varieties in the College plantation this past season, having pro- 

 duced at the rpte of 7,000 quarts per acre. The next best variety 

 was Cpt skill ^''ith 4-, 500 quarts per acre. Anyone vho considers 

 Hoviprd Supreme too dprk colored, certainly v'ill be disappointed 

 v/ith the color of Falrfp.x. 



The ncv Indian Summer red rpspberry is ps early as 

 Ranere (St. Regis) in its summer crop, but in the past t-'o sepsons 

 has failed in Amherst to mature its fall crop before freezing 

 vreather. The season of Taylor and Marcy appears to be betveen 

 Ne'-'burgh and Lpthara. An averpge of six yeprs' yield records shov;s 

 Chief to hpve the spme sepson ps Ne-'^burgh, instead of being an 

 ep.rly berry as vas first thought. (A. P. French). 



Right and Wrong Method s vith Tv'o Small Fruits 



The effects of a comparatively minor change in method 

 is veil illustrated by G. I.I. Darro^- in the Proceedings of the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society for 193^' Strax-'berry beds held over for 

 the second fruiting season vere mov^ed for comparison on three dates, 

 July], August 1, and September 1. In all three varieties included 

 in tiie test, Blakemore, Joe and Howard I7, early mo^"ing ^'as dis- 

 tinctly beneficial, increasing the yields by 22, I3.5, and 12.1^ 

 respectively. August moving v-as of dubious value rhile September 

 moving v'as injurious to all three varieties. 



Another illustration along the same line is reported by 

 C. A. Doehlert in the Proceedings of the American Cranberry G-rc'ers ' 

 Ass'n. for 193^. In a comparison of three methods of hprvesting, 

 namely, hand picking, scooping from a stpnding position, and scoop- 

 ing from a kneeling position, he reports average yields oer acre of 

 120.1, 9^.6, and 9S.7 bbl . , respectively. The dropped berries 

 collected from small measured areas shoved pverage losses of h.k, 

 21.5, and iKfo of the total crop, respectively, for the three methods. 

 There '"as also more tearing of the vines on the plants scooped from 

 a standing position. And so it appeprs that there is a riglit and 

 a vrong vay of doing such simple tasks as moving the strawberry 

 patch and scooping up the cranberry crop. 



