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At R recont large raenting of fruit groi^ers in the Mid- 

 v/est, a vote '"pb tnkcn to determine the general opinion ac to the 

 bent planting distance for penches. The follo^'^ing figures ahovi 

 the peroontpge of grov'ers rho favored one nlanting distance over 

 another: 12' x 1^', none; 20' x 20', l.^f; 2^^' x ?J\-\ ^^.5%; 

 more than 2^', ^J>fo. In other '*'ordG, more than 9^!^ ^^ "the gro^'ers 

 at this meeting ^"erc in favor of planting peaches more than 2K 

 feet apart each way, 



Feiv fruit varieties have stood the test af time bettor 

 than the Montmorency cherry. This sour cherry originated in the 

 Montn.orency Valley in France hundreds of j'-ears ago and hr g been 

 cultivated in America for more than 100 years. At present, more 

 than JO^o of trees in the leading sou.r cherry -nroducing sections 

 are of the Montmorency variety. No other sour cherry is adapted 

 to so v/ide a variety of soils. The tree is hardy and -oroductive 

 v'hile the fru.it meets the exacting demands of consumers and pro- 

 cessors. 



Even peach fuzz has value, according to this story in 

 The Furrow. "^Vhen marketers ran some peaches through a. machine 

 equippe:3 v-ith brushes to take off the fuzz and make them more at- 

 tractive to the eye and more pleasrnt to eat, they found the 

 peaches becnme infected v/^th brov^n-rot about twice as quickly as 

 before. The organ! sm.s enter through the broken hair socknts and 

 start decny, according to federal tests." 



Quoting from a recent issue of Better Fruit, "Better 

 control of cull apples from the two great produ.cing districts in 

 the North''"est is fc^ec-st by the success of Union Fruit Producers, 

 Inc. in their sign-up campaign for the coming season. In Wena.t- 

 chee, prospects r^re bright for an early sign-up of JO per cent of 

 the tonnage, and in the Yakima district a vigorous campaign is 

 being waged to accomplish the same result there." 



Investigations in irrigated orchards sho'" that an ex- 

 tremely heavy crop of blossoms produced by apple trees and pear 

 trees is common on trees that ?iave not rtjceived, during the pre- 

 vious summer, as much "'a,te;r as ^^'ould be to their advantage in 

 making good growth. The nlo^" state of growth resulting from the 

 low water supply during summers of bright sunshine is commonly 

 follo'"ed by a very heavy bloom ."nd the trees put out more foliage- 

 than they c-'^n csrry through the summer in good condition. Heavy 

 fruit thinning and heavy pruning is ordinarily renuired to cpuse 

 such trees to produce fruit of even medium size and large fruits 

 are seldom produced by sucli trees even though the crop may have 

 been thinned to a very small percentage of the total blossoms 

 produced. 



