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mouse injury. Borers will sometimes cause a similar condition. Another 

 example is found in hurricane damaged trees vrtiich have suffered severe 

 root'breakage on one side. vVe therefore offer this simple suggestion. 

 liVherever a tree fails to make satisfactory terminal grovvi;h, and particularly 

 if it has failed to respond to an application of nitrogen, it is a good 

 plan to look for injured bark on the lower part of the trunk. T.sany apple 

 trees in I/!assachusetts show a development of spurs throughout the top. This 

 condition should arouse our suspicions concerning mouse injurj'- or hurricane 

 injurji-. It nay be advisable to do a little digging around such trees and 

 find out if they will justify a fertilizer application next spring. I.feybe 

 they should contribute to the supply of wood for the fireplace. 



Two Fruit Pest Control Conferences 



The third araaual conference of Experiment Station and Extension 

 Service workers in fruit pest control will be held in Aralierst November 26. 

 Representatives from the various IJev/ England states and from the Hudson 

 Valley are exoected. Fimgicides and insecticides will be reviewed and ob- 

 servations of the current season reported. The arjiual fruit spray chart 

 revision conference is scheduled for December 4. At this ti^ne each of the 

 snray charts will be gone over in detail and changes made in accordance 

 vrith developments during the past year. 



Do You lOaow 



Tl'-at the Cortland apple is 43 years old? The original cross between 

 Ben Davis and Mcintosh was made in 1898 at the Geneva Experiment Station. 

 The seedling tree bore its first fruit in 1906 but was not generally intro- 

 duced until 1915. 



That the value of horticultural crops in the U. S. amounts to 

 about 12>b of the valu.e of all crops grown? The total value of all crops 

 amounts to about 10 billion dollars arjiually. The annual value of fruit 

 crops is about 421 million, truck crops 256 million, potatoes 250 million, 

 ornamental crops 209 million, and ntits 20 million. 



That strav/berries contain at least 90^, i7ater? Recent analyses by 

 E. B. Holland and "7, S. Richie shov/ strawberries to have the highest water 

 content of any tree or small fruits grown in this region. The average -irnter 

 content of 10 varieties of raspberries was '36%. Blueberries were found to 

 contain 80.5^^ and cranberries 87.2;;i. The water content of three varieties 

 of apples after coring and paring v/as as follows: Mcintosh, 85.4fi; Baldwin, 

 85.7Joi Vfeaithy, 87.4^. 



That "heavy" or fine textured soils actually weigh less per unit 

 of volume than so-called "light" soils v/hich are of coarser texture? These 

 terms, according to A. B. Beaumont, arose from the fact that the finer soils 

 are harder to work and require more pov:er in the process of cultivation. 



That a rubber tired ■vra.gon or trailer may be constructed at rela- 

 tively little expense? If interested in this piece of home made equipment, 

 drop a line to the v«riter and fvill details vrill be supplied. 



That the removal of soil from around the trunk of a fruit tree in 

 the fall tends to encourage v/inter injury? The lower part of the trunlc and 



