Trevett, revealed an average yield of 6661 quarts per acre. Among other 

 thing^^s, the survey shows quite conclusively that fertilizer practice alone, 

 bears little or no relation to jaeld. Success in straivberry growing is 

 associated v.lth a nu.'nber of related factors. 



That several large, luscious strawberries v/ere picked in a Spring- 

 field garden on the first day of December? A. ii. Robinson of 76 Miller Street 

 is the man who produced this unusual crop, proof of which appears in the 

 December 2 issue of the Springfield Union. 



That live cells in the skin of an apple are capable of developing 

 the red color pigment, v.'hereas dead cells are not? The failure of storage 

 apples to t ake on additional red color, even v;hen exposed to ligrit, is be- 

 lieved to be due to the death of cells in the skin. In a 1932 report from 

 the Boyce Thompson Institute, Arthur reports that most of the epidenr^al cells 

 were found to b e dead in apples stored until November 8, 



That v/ooden apples are proving useful in teaching apple packing at 

 one of the migrant labor camps in the Northwest? On hearing this report, 

 someone remarked that Ben Davis apples are evidently no longer available. 



That the fuel value of v/ood is almost directly proportional to its 

 density? For example, dry hickory wood, which v;eighs 4500pounds per cord is 

 about equivalent in fuel value to soft coal. Sugar maple, weighing 4,000 pounds 

 per cord, has a fuel value 7/8 that of coal. 1'i'hite pine weighs 2200 pounds 

 per cord and its fuel value is 2/5 that of coal. Sound apple wood should have 

 a fuel value approximating that of sugar maple, vhite oak, red oak, and beech, 

 namely, 7/8 that of coal. 



That one's mouth may be more efficiently cleansed by chewing an ap- 

 ple than by using a toothbrush? This is especially true of a tj-ps of apple 

 -.vi'iich requires considerable chewing. Further infonnation on this subject will 

 appear in an early issue of Fruit Notes. 



That an average dairy cow, during the grazing season, will remove 

 from the soil 115 pounds of nitrogen, 26 pounds of phosphoric acid, 93 pounds 

 of potash and 37 pounds of calcium oxide? Even v.lth conservation of the manure, 

 one-half of the nitrogen and phosphorus and 30)b of the potash may be lost to 

 the pasture soil. 



That a new material known as ammoni'om sulfamate is proving effect 

 in killing poison ivj/" and other unwanted plants? On poison ivy, dosages be 

 tween l/2 and one pound per gallon of water applied at the rate of one to 1;|- 

 gallons per hundred square feet of lemd has given excellent control. Tests 

 of this new material are being planned for Massachusetts next season. 



That the production of fruits for distribution in fresh, dried or 

 canned forms is expected to increase 1.5'/; (from 14.8 million tons this year 

 to 15 million tons in 1942). It is expected that the consamption of the 12 

 major f resh fruits may amount to 135 pounds per person in 1942 compared with 

 136.5 pounds per person in 1941. This slight decrease is due to the fact that 

 larger requirements for dried and canned fruits will reduce sli-,htly the quan- 



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