FRUIT NOTES 



Volume 6 



Number 3 



March, 1942. 



W. H. Thies 

 Extension Horticulturist 



In This Issue: 



Bees for Pollination 



The Box Situation 



Do You Know? 



Apples and Bananas 



Strawberries for the Amateur 



Are Sprayed Apples Injurious to Health? 



Pressure Loss in Power Sprayers 



New Grapes 



Strawberries Resistant to Red Stele 



Fertilizer Supplies 



Industry or Agriculture? 



A Successful Retailers' School 



The Rat Menace 



Orchard Experiments at M.S.C. 



Bees for Pollination 



Bees play a vita 

 the various kinds of nut 

 pendent upon insects for 

 set of fruit. V.'ild bees 

 bers, but they are knovm 

 plantings. Of all the p 

 under a:iy degree of cont 

 so with any of the other 

 of crop insurance. This 

 supplies and labor, we c 

 to a larger yield of mar 

 season we can lower the 



1 role in fruit production. IVith the exception of 

 s, all of our tree fruits in Massachusetts are de- 

 the transfer of pollen, so essential in getting a 

 do an excellent job if present in sufficient num- 

 to be relatively scarce in many of our larger fruit 

 ollen carrying bees, the honey bee is the only one 

 rol. V;e can bring honey bees into the orchard. Not 

 bees. The introduction of honey bees is one kind 

 year with its many restrictions and higher costs of 

 annot afford to ne^l-Jct anything which may contribute 

 ketable fruit. By getting more bushels per acre this 

 per bushel cost of production. 



Beekeepers are being urged to producs more honey and wax this year. 

 According to F. R. Shaw of tli'j Department of Entomology, many of the larger 



Issued by the Extension Service, Willard A. Munson, Director, in further- 

 ance of Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, Massachusetts State College. United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and County Extension Services cooperating. 



