and varieties are announced each Saturday for the follov;ing week. 



Fertilizar Bags for Mou se Co ncentration S tations. Bags placed noar each treo 

 early in the fall are being used very effectively in the orchard of Dr. Kemp in 

 Shelburne to induce meadow mice to make easily located "runs" for the placing of 

 poison bait. At this season there is a network of fresh "runs" beneath practi- 

 cally every bag. This greatly facilitates the mouse control prograi.-.. On a re- 

 cent sunny afternoon it was found tnat mice were eating the piecus of appla 

 witiiin a few minutus aftt^r they were placed in the run. Witn this set-up it 

 should be possible to obtain almost lOO/o control of orcnard micB. Otnisr grow- 

 ers arc using a forkful of nay near ^^acii trco as a concentration station. 



Late Hanging Mclntosn . Four Mcintosh apples v/eru found still clinging to a tree 

 in an Acton orchard on November 2. This is quite a contrast to the early 

 dropping observed in some orchards. An occasional apple left on the tree is ap- 

 parently mucii less incli-ned to form an abscission layer than it is if competing 

 witn a lot of other applos. The above mentioned apples Were of exceptionally 

 fine color, and the quality was very good in spite of the unusual storage tem- 

 peratures. 



Conference on Internal Cork . A conference of interwstod horticulturists and 

 pathologists from New England and the Hudson Valley is schedi„led to be held in 

 Hartford, Conn., Decen.ber 11 to discuss the internal Curk situation in orchards 

 in the Northeast. At this meeting experimental work in the Hudson Valley will 

 be presented by Dr. Burr ell and recor/imendations for preventing internal cork in 

 apples v/ill be outlined. On droughty or shallow soils v.here a boron deficiency 

 is likoly to appear, the judicious use of borax tends to prevent internal cork- 



New Materials for the Control of ^.phids . Several highly promising materials 

 are nov/ available for U3.:> as a dormant spray in the contrul of aphids attacking 

 fruit trees. A den^onstration o-f two of these m^iterials was conducted in the 

 orchard of R. E. Huntley of Hanover last spring in cooperation with A. I. Bourne, 

 Experiment St.ution Entomologist, lir . Huntley is very much pleased with the re- 

 sults. Scale insects and aphis e-^gs were ..Iraost eiitirely elimincited on tne test 

 trees. He writes, "rte feel that wherever a fev» aphis eggs hatched they vjere in 

 a safe place VKhere spray did not touch thwrn, such as in the tops of high tre^s 

 or in cracks and other concealed places. Practically complete control was found 

 on sprayed trees vAile a count on unsprayed check trees shovi/ed 10-50 aphis per 

 cluster of ouds." These materials must be used while the trees are strictly .. - 

 dormant. Details of this new ...etnod may be obtained from Professor Bourne. 



Folks Do Listen to the Radio . In response to a radio talk on "i/hy Some Home 

 Fruit Plantings are Successful," given over thts Colonial i>ietwork, October 27, 

 during whicn public^^tions on strav;berries , raspberries, and grapes were mention- 

 ed, Vi^e have received 101 inquiries. This seems to indicate tnat folks not only 

 listen to a discussion of agricultural matters over the radio, but that tney 

 occasionally write in for additional inf ori:.ation. 



Ten Years' Experiments witn Codlin g Moth Bait Trays, Lignt Traps, and Trap Bands .. 

 This is the title of Bui. ^25 j, published by the New Mexico College of Agricul- 

 ture. The author, J. R. EyJ, discusses in detail the effectiveness of a numiber 



