She runs from tree to tree where lie and sv/eeten 



The windfalls spiked with stubble and v/orru-eaten. 



She leaves them bitten when she has to jly. 



She bellows on a Knoll against the sky. 



Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry. (Robert Frost) 



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Vvliile we admire the author's choice of words and almost 

 envy him his ability to paint a word picture, we :jiestion his fin- 

 al statement that an apple diet interferes with milk production. 

 Maybe the cow in question got more than her share. 



List of Agricultural ExperLnent Stations 



Any reader of Fruit hotes desiring a list of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Stations m the United States with addresses 

 may obtain the same by dropping a postcard to the Department of 

 Pomology. Many of these stations send publications free of charge 

 while others make a small charge for out oT state requests. This 

 offer of a list of stations is prompted by an occasional inquiry 

 from growers for the correct adaress of a distant i'.gricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Warm and Cold Soils 



In a recent issue of the American Fruit Grower L. D. 

 Bavei' of Ohio State University says, "Soils receive all of their 

 heat energy from the sim. Dark-colored soils absorb more of this 

 energy than light colored ones. Therefore, organic matter in the 

 immediate surface tends to darken the soil and increase its abil- 

 ity to absorb heat. The presence of v/ater in soils, however, 

 leads to a cold soil, especially in the early spring. It takes 

 about four times more heat to warm up a pound of water to a given 

 temperature than to warm up a pound of dry soil. ConseL^uently, 

 it is essential to drain soils in order to have warm soils. 

 Those soils with a low content of large pores are usually v/et and 

 cold in the spring." 



V«et soils are not oniy cold but also lacking in aeration. 

 It is a well linovm fact that plant roots will not function if the 

 oxygen content of the soil air falls below a critical point. The 

 failure of roots under these conditions is due not so aiuch to ex- 

 cess water as to insuif ic lent oxygen. Plants will grow with roots 

 in water if the water contains oxygen. Without oxygen they are of 

 no use whatever to the tree. This suggests why fruit trees do so 

 poorly on a v/aterlogged soil. 



Bakery Experiments with Apple Bread 



A leading baicery m Seattle/i/ashington, has been using 

 apple flour in an experihiental v/ay but as yet has not met with 

 much success. This bf.kery reports that the acid reaction in the 

 dough made it impossible to put enough of the flour in the bread 

 to give it a distinct apple flavor. 



