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quires all r;;rov/er3 whose fruit fails to make an established grade to place 

 the designation "GULLS" conspicuously on the packages. The saae label nust 

 appear on fruit delivered in bulk on trucks and also in the piles of fruit 

 when offered for sale. The letters must be at least 2-^- inches high. 



L^.s^PillinjI Brin_£;s_ _Strlj'd^^ Twenty-tv/o carloads of strav/- 



berries and 19 carloads of peaches v/ere included in a precooling test in 

 Indiana last season. Precooling the top layer of a carload of strawberries 

 to approxinately 45 F. prevented the development of rot in transit and re- 

 sulted in higher returns to the shipper than iron fruit not precooled. Brown 

 rot development in the top layers of poaches was definitely checked during 

 transit by precooling to less than 50° f. before shipment. 



11}^.S^I'P'y^]?^!'U.S'y^2:PS'}i' About 197,000 acres of strawberries will be ready 

 for harvest in 1940. This acreage is tne largest since 1929 and 9% above the 

 10-year average 1923-37, but is only about 2/o larger than the 1939 harvested 

 acreage. Should yields in 1940 be average, production vri.ll be so;.iewhat less 

 than in 1939 v/hen the per acreage yield was about lO^o above average. 



L^AL.SJL^^^A JjloA^iA^A J^L^S.-. Cran]^^^^ Cranberry growing is concentrated 



in five states, Ikssachusetts , liew Jersey, '.Wisconsin, 'iVashington, and Oregon, 

 where 671,000 barrels v/ere harvested last fall. The cro;^£in both I'iassachusetts 

 and Wisconsin v/ere \;ell above average as a result of favorable grov;ing condi- 

 tions. The tiassachusetts crop was 43/o larger than the light crop of 1938. 



9^il^<;Ia__Dixei:j;_^._Sj.n'_2.3j^^^ In spite of a preferential 



market in the United Kingdom, Canada v/ill have much difficulty moving a nor- 

 mal volume of fresh apples to overseas maxkats this seasono As a result 

 the Canadian Government is nov/ diverting into cairning a;id drying 5,000,000 

 bushels or more. During the last several y^ars the canned and dried products 

 have averaged only a little more than 1,000,000 bushels. The increased supply 

 this year vd.ll mean more competition for canned and dried apples intended for 

 export from the United States. 



S^PJ^JA A^.°iL.°JL J'^rj- ?il9i^il'2J2A Frank Nelson of T/enatchee, 



Washinpjton, has set a high mark in pear production this seasonc In a block 

 of 110 trees of the Bartlett variety he picked an average of 504 pounds per 

 tree. The trees are planted IG feet apart, making about 134 per acre. This 

 means a production of slightly over 40 tons of pears per acre. 



V/eight of App les in Different Containers. A few days ago a class in pomology 

 at the State College v/as given the assignm.ont of finding the relative weights 

 of Cortland apples in vca-ious types of packages. The net weights v;ere as 

 follov/SL Crate - jumble pack v;ith bulge, 45 lbs. Crate - face and fill, 

 42 lbs. Crate - level pack, ju-folo, 39 lbs. Basket - 40|- lbs. Eastern Box - 

 layer packed, 33 lbs. Gaylord Carton - jumble pack, 43 lbs. 9S Apple Carton - 

 36-5: lbs. These figures indicate that there is not as much difference in net 

 v/eight of apples in the more corLmon packages as is cor:.ionly believed. It 

 will be noted tha.t a crate v;ith a bulge contains 6 lbs. more tha:i one that 

 is packed level, as v;as originally intended. 



