

oil burner, equipped v/ith a special conbustion chamber, 30/1 of the gas re- 

 sulting fron the ■corabustion of the fuel is ruturnod to the bm-ner. It is 

 hoped that this now arx-angci;:ent will mako possible norc corapleto, and there- 

 fore more efficient burning of the oil. 



Apples Instead of Christmas Cards . Frank Hubbard, a Washington apple grov/er, 

 has proposed a novel idea for distribution of apples at Christinas tirae. 

 "Everyone sends Christnias cards," said Kubbard, "Vi/hy not use apples instead 

 of cards?" So he ordered 300 cardboard bo;.;es large enough to hold a single 

 lai'ge apple. These were sent to 300 of his friends aiid sunxiert inie customers. 

 Dave Rubinoff, tlie violinist, purchased 200 gift bo;..es of apples when he 

 visited the V/enatchee Valley before the holidays. 



Record__Pr_ic_e _fqr a^A^slij^-^jyf Jl£_l\?-%° Imagine selling one bushel of apples 

 for $108.00. That is the price paid at auction by one of the large chain 

 stores a fev/ v/eehs ago for the best bushel of apples in the State Apple Show 

 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. These apples were of the Turley variety and were 

 grown in the Heiser Orchard at Hartford, iich. The highest price previously 

 paid for a bushel at this Show under sir.iilar circuastancas was $25.00 = 



J^Pruninj3_ Devitalizes Trees_._J^ This is the title of an article in Decenber 

 Better Fruit by P. T. Harvey. Referring to heav^' pruning, he says, "The 

 most prevalent belief ar.iong grov/ers is that pruning stimulates grovrth. It 

 does to a certain e::tent, but if on nornal trees you weigh the pruning s and 

 compare that xrlth the new growth, you vn.ll find that the grovrth is not equal 

 to what is cut off. ,1 have never been 3.ble to understand why majay apple 

 grov/ers insist on cutting off the tops of their trees thereby making brush 

 piles of them. An apple tree has a tendency to grov/ tall but if it is not 

 cut off, the weight of the fruit will gradually shape the fruit into a 

 weeping-vdllow formation and on these long bending lim.bs will be found the 

 best fruit that grov;s." 



?.^^j-Jki'yf-^l^-..]-'3^S>I.9S>^^^..9Sl-'^2S£J>A' Circular 3S3 of the New Jersey Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station makes this inter jsting statement, "Excepting the 

 years 1921 and 1932, fertilizer can probably be bought today at about as 

 low a figure as at any time since the V/orld War, whereas the price of labor 

 is still high. Thus, fertilizers judiciously used to increase per acre 

 yields r.ay actually cut the labor cost." If a dollox's worth of fertilizer 

 is tiie thing needed to produce two dollar's worth of fruit, that investment 

 v/ill reduce the per miit cost and v/ill help to offset tlie labor item. 



A2£lic_ation_of_3^orj^^Brj^yj3:)ts_ I^^^^^ Outstcinding succees in the 



prevontTo'n Vf i'nt'ernal Vorl in the Cham.plain Valley was reported by A B. 

 Burrell at one of the recent II.F.G.A^. sessions in Worcester. Results of 

 these tests will bo reported in the next issue of Fruit Notes along with 

 detailed directions for applying borax on trees of different agos. Every 

 Liassachusetts grower who had any internal cork in Mcintosh, Cortland or 

 other varieties last fall should take stops this spring to prevent its 

 recurrence. A s/aall a-iount of borax provides the necessary magic which 

 insures normal fruit. 



