FRUIT UOTES 



Volume 6 



Number 2 



February, 1942 



IN THIS ISSUE: 



The Supply Situation 

 1942 Apple Spray Chart 

 Contrast in Nursery Advertising 

 Orchard Soil Acidity 

 Do you Knov;? 



A::nual Report of Exp. Sta. 

 Hassachusetts Apple Juice 

 Thev Sav It Viiorlcs 



Mulchin[, Experirients 



Farn ivianures 



17ar Ti-ie Apple Prices 



Beekeepers' Supplies 



Apple Tree Census 



Apple luaggot Control 



Tree Pulling 



Guns, Tanks and Apples 



The Supply Situation 



Fertilizers. The supply of nitrate of soda, sulfate of ammonia, 

 cyanamid, etc., forT942 farm operations will be not more than 50^^ of 

 normal and in some cases will be as lov: as 20^0 of previous supplies. Some 

 of the materials normally used in fertilizers were previously transported 

 by ships which are not now available. Plans are under way for monthly ra- 

 tioning of nitrate of soda by states at a fixed price, plus transportation. 

 Early shipments will go into the southern states. Supplies of superphosphate 

 in 1943 may be curtailed, since future shipments of phosphate rock from 

 Florida will involve rail instead of v;ater transportation. Supplies of 

 both pliosphorus and potash are none too plentiful at present, although 

 there should be enough mixed goods for this season at least. Some fruit 

 growers are buying a high nitrogen mixed fertilizer instead of the straight 



Issued by the Extension Service, Y,'iHard A. IJunson, Director, in further- 

 ance of Acts of i:ay6 and June 30, 1914, Hassachusetts State College, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and County Extension Services cooperating. 



