-5- 



Approximate percentage distribution of U. S. holdings by 

 "" " 1 is interesting. V/inoscip - 30^; Mcintosh - 



varieties on February 

 13,-; Delicious - 12^; Baldv/in 

 tovvn (Albemarle Pippin)^ 

 C-ano - 3%' Stay.'iian - 5jo", 



9% 



Home 



J-JC 



autv - 



Northern Sv^. 

 ;her v 

 of the total were Mcintosh and 



York Imperial 





2%; Cortland - 1%; and other vi'rieties 



30^ 



- 2fj; Rhode 

 - lOfj. In 

 Bald\7in. 



6%; Yellow Nev;- 

 Ben Davis and 

 Island Greening 

 iiew England 



I/O 



storage holdings on February 1 consisted of 156,000 bar- 

 rels; 8,199,000 Western boxes; 5,787,000 iilastern boxes; and 



5,858,000 bushel baskets 



L. Scuthv.'ick 



V/eight of 



Bushel of Apples 



V\'. S. Campfield, secretary of the Virginia State Hort. 

 Society, undertook the accurate weighiing of some 500 commercial 

 bushel packages of apples to find the average deviations from the 

 commonly accepted bushel weight of around 42-5 pounds. Average 

 weights, several varieties included, vi^ere as f ollov.'s : 



Northwestern packed box 



1-1/8 bu. Eastern box - face and fill 



1-1/5 bu. Eastern crate - either face 



and fill or packed 

 Evans drum - face and fill 

 Basket - Crovm cover - face and fill 



43 . 7 pounds 

 45.7 " 



47 . 7 

 42.5 

 4>3 • ' 



Mr. Campfield says; "I would think the northwestern box 

 and the Evans drum more nearly indicate the weights of a bushel of 

 apples. It will be noted that the other packs, including the bas- 

 kets, were all in excess of the bushel weights, and to that extent, 

 the industry is giving away to the trade more apples than it should, 



due to the use of so many 



to say nothing of 



the 

 to 1 

 chaotic condition 



different sizes and types of package. 



L. Southv.'ick 



Japanese Beetle Problem 



m a 



ing 



cons 



cont 



eare 



The 



side 



to H 



over 



Dr. G. 3. Langford, entomologist. University of Maryland, 

 discussion of "che Japanese beetle recently gave this interest- 

 information. The program of control of this pest in Maryland 



ying, dusting, lavm treatments, biological 

 nematodes, and a new method v;here dis- 



ists of trapping, sp 

 rol by use of parasites, 



germs (harmful only to the beetles) are worked into the soil, 

 beetles ccught in the 10,000 traps in Maryland in 1939, if laid 



by side, would have reached from Washington to California, back 

 ew York, then to \7ashington, v;ith a few tons of beetles left 



L. Southv.'ick. 



Government Payments 



Sta 



10. 5f^ of 



that for 



Preliminary figures for 1939 show _. „ 



a whole total government farm payments amounted to about 

 income from farm marketings. This percen- 



the United 

 :es 



?/j of the total casii income rrom rarm marketings. This pf 

 tage varied considerably among the states. For instance, in Massa 



