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Many of our cull apples are in that class because of small size. And 

 small size is often due to a lack of thinning. We fa.il to gtst good finish or 

 color in big crop years. But it is difficult to do an effective job of spraying 

 or thinning on tress 30 to 40 feet high. We should keep our orchards young by 

 eliminating older trees and by replanting. The Mcintosh uf New England and the 

 Hudson Valley haiR made thdir reputation on the product of young trees. 



Items frcm Here and There 



County agricultural agents from Massachusetts along with several other 

 members of the College staff toured southern Vermont and New Hampshire on June 30 

 and July 1 and 2. The tour ended at the Univbrsity of New Hampshire in Durham, 

 v/here pasture fertilizer plots, barns, poultry plants, etc, were looked over. 

 Two good orchards were visited on the trip, those of W. H. Darrow, Putney, Ver- 

 mont, and Robert Gould of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, a striking example of a 

 potash resvonse in grass plots observed at Clareraont, has a direct application 

 to orchiird cover crops on certain soil types. 



The v/riter spent an interesting day recently visiting a series of fi low 

 bush blueberry fertilizer plots in Granville and Blandford. Five nitrogeni. i 

 fertilizers were used in each experiment as follows; Nitrate of soda, sulfate of 

 ammonia, cyanamid, cottonsebd meal, and a comilete fertilizer. Thus far the re- 

 sults are not at all convincing, although there is plenty of evidence of a stim- 

 ulated weed grovviih where a more readily availablu nitrogen is used, /ill of the 

 fertilizer jlots also show some improvement in gro'rth of blueberry plants, with 

 cottonseed n.eal giving the least response. If growers of low bush blueberries 

 ever adopt a fertilizer progrurn, it looks as though they would also have to 

 fight Competing Vegetation.. 



The number of adult leaf hoppers of the first brood present in some or- 

 chards in lute June gives us an inkling of what we mc^y expect in late August 

 when the second brood comes on. a thorough contact spray about oept ember 1 is 

 strongly recommended wherever leaf hopper nymphs are found to be numerous, toi 

 application at that time will probably do more good in controlling leaf hopper 

 than any other application during the season. 



A shortage of information on the subject of quinces is partially met by 

 a new publication, U. S. D. A. Leaflet No. 15B, "Quince Grov;ing" , written by H. 

 p. Gould, Senior Pomologist of the U. 3. D. a. This leaflet covers briefly the 

 following subjects: habit of gruvrth, soils, trees for planting, care of trees, 

 pruning, diseases, insects, and v^riaties. 



The June issue of the ^unerican Fruit Grower includes a complete sumr:ary 

 of fruit growers' supplies v/ith classified index and names of dealers supplying 

 everything from acetylene torches to zinc sulfate. This Buyers' Guide for the 

 Fruit Farn: is a useful addition to the fruit growers' library. 



A speaker on the recent Apple Conference Program in V/ashington ma ' ^ thie 

 striking statement about apple marketing. "Apple prices become unduly lov/ hen 

 a volume approL^ching 90 million bushels is marketed in the regular fresh channels 

 in the domestic market. Returns to grov/ers apfiroach more closely what is consid- 

 ered a satisfactory price Vifhen marketing in the domestic fresh fruit market ap- 

 proximates 70 million bushels. IjVhen prices are adjusted in a manner to correct 



