01 ci Timers . Hov lon^ vill a email fruit plant in^ last? Sono 

 light OR thic qucLstion comoG from a ctory by E. H. Burtjon in the 

 Ri'.ral Kev Yorkor. Ho report c a blackberry planting which fruited 

 well for 36 yearn, a purple raspberry potch paying v^ell in its 

 20th Goacon, and ^O-yr.-old currants ctill bearing fruit. In 

 Haccachuoottc, vro Knoxr of one r.-^cpberry planting well over 20 

 yeari: of J^ge, still bearing good crops . 



Hay to Burn . 0. L. Wyman of the Univ. of I'.Ia.ine makes a pointed 

 comment in a recent issue of Maine Fruit Notes: "Professor Waring 

 loft a note on my deck the other day in which he said, 'I sav; a 

 nan raking a field and firing the windrovrs, md. unmulched orchards 

 apparently on the same farm.' Can't we stop practices of that 

 sort?" We ha.ven't seen any firing of v'indro'-'s in Mnsnachusetts, 

 but there are plenty of rain- soaked haycocks, '7orthless as hay, 

 waiting for some enterprising orchard! st to place them whore 

 they're most needed. 



Cherry Fruit Fly. A motorized laboratory is assisting :n the 

 cherry fruit fly inspection i-orj: being conducted in IQ Fiohigan 

 counties this season by the State Dept. of Agriculture. 3prayirg 

 dates arc determined by noting the first emergence of the flies, 

 as is done in Now England with apple maggot, a close relative. A 

 reduction in number of infested properties in Hichigan is ropor'";jv3 

 this year. 



"Culls" Vermont is considering a change in npole grrdos "'hioh 

 would prohibit pla.cing r.oro than 1^% below Utility G-rr,do in the 

 "Unclassified" pack. This change will tend to ma.Jio the "Unclassi- 

 fied" a bettor .-Tpplo. To take care of poorer fruit a "Cull" C-ra''i.e 

 is proposed r.nd provision is m.ado for marking such fruit "Culls. ■' 



G-rape Pollen . Artificial pollination of grapes is being tested 

 at the Fredonia laboratory" of the N. Y. State Exp. Station. A 

 Guitoble pollen mixed with lycopodium powder dusted on blossom 

 clustoi's yielded, In one case, 50^ more fruit than the untreated. 

 c].ustors due to the greater number of berries on the treated 

 clusters. Brighton, Herbert a.nd Salem are among the self-sterile 

 or imperfectly fertile varieties. F. E. G-ladwin concludes that 

 artificial pollination is entirely feasible from a conmercial 

 standpoint a.s a mea.ns of improving the appenrr.nce of the clusters 

 as v'cll as greatly increasing the yield. 



G-rafting Wax . H. A. Cardinell of Llichigan is exporlmonting with 

 asphalt emulsions in top grjifting. Ten m.odif ications of brush wax 

 formula.G and 2 aspha.ltic preparations were tested on 1,7^1 cleft 

 gra.fted scions. The average of k grj^fting wax formulas using 

 resin re a. base wns ^kfo successfu.l; of k formulas using abiotic 

 acid as a base, &^^; and of 6 asphaltlc emulsions, &S%. All were 

 satisfactory from the standpoint of actual practice. 



Apple C uttings . A no'- method of rooting apple cuttings is being 

 developed at the U.S.D.A. National Agricultural Resofirch Center, 

 Beltsville, IJd. F. E. G-ardnor reports that etiolation (a terra 



