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Golden Delicio us from V/ ashi ngton . Goldan Dulicious eipplc;s ..ru coining from 

 the Yakima Valley of Washington in boxes with individua,l compartniunts for 

 (luch applo, liku an egg cr-.te. The Vc.rioty ■-..a growi theru shows bruis<js too 

 o£.sily to be handled in the ordin^jy western box. R. A. V:in Ivluti^r 



Soma Inte rest ing Data on Perishable Products . The a.ver..ge c^.rlot h-ul of 



fruits and vugwtables throughout the U. S- h^s been found to be 1425 niiles. 



It has been estimated th.t ZZ5 kinds of food c^re canned each year in the U. S. 



About 9 billion cans aru usdd uach yuar. ht leust 14 diffori-nt fruit juicus 



c.re now on the market. 



R. A. Van Mat or 



Frozen Fruits in Storage . Total stocks of ..11 frozen fruits on August 1, 

 Were reported as 130,650,000 pounds, an increase over July 1 of 26,540,000 

 pounds. Of the August 1 holdings 21,172,000 were reported as uncl-.ssified . 

 32,196,000 pounds wore in small containers of less than 30 pounds capacity 

 and the balance in bulk or containers of 30 pounds or over. 



A Note on Pruning Cortland Trees . In a recent issue of Ivkiinc Fruit Notes 

 J. H. Waring suggests this solution to the Cortland pruning puzzle voiced by 

 a Connecticut grovi^er in the Rural New Yorker; "Carry the leader to a height 

 of some 10 feet, permit somewhat m^ore branches to rem._.in than the four or 

 five which vi/ould be good practice v»ith Mcintosh, and exercise constant care 

 to keep all bro-nches in b.. lance and properly subordinate to the le^.der at 

 le^.st until well estc^blished. Tlie later removal of sone bottom branches will 

 not then entail any serious lossj the trees will still have good size and 

 balance." 



An Organic Matter Sermon V/orth Repeating . J. B. Abbott in a recent issue of 

 the Farm Bureau Nov/s makes these pointed statements about organic matter. 

 "If all the accumulated soil-management wisdom of a hundred generations of 

 master farmers were boiled down to just three sentences, one of those sen- 

 tences certainly would be 'provide for regular and frequent replenishment 

 of the supply of orgtJiic matter in tho soil.' Org:Lnic matter in the form of 

 humus adds to the w_terholding capacity of the soil, thus reducing the danger 

 of injury by drought, it Serves as a storehouse of readily available plc^nt 

 food, especially nitrogen, and yields it up to the plant v/ith a season-long 

 regularity never achieved by fertilizer alonoj it improves tne tilth of the 

 soil, making heavy soils more friable and ^.iving sandier soils more body, 

 it increases the permeability of the soil so that rainfall is more quickly 

 absorbed and run-off and erosion correspondingly decreased, it servos as a 

 culture medium for the soil bacteria v^hich render plant foods available." 



Phosphorus - The Master Key . This is the title of an article by W. H. Pierre 

 of Iowa State College in the latest Fertilizer Review. He says, ""When the 

 mixed pasture thoit looks green enougn during rainy weeks shows on examin<^tion 

 that no clovers h-.ve come up and that the sod is thin, it is an indication 

 that phosphorus is one of the elements in which the soil is deficient. For 

 legumes are particularly sensitive to a lack of !.;vaiiable phosphorus." This 

 doctrine seems to apply in the orchard. Fruit trees seldom fail v/here legumes 

 make satisfactory growth. Phosphorus is one of the elements found in a-v^ry 

 living coll. It is :,ssontial in both plant and animi.l nutrition. 



