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ing if you expect to have containers for apples this fall. Although there was 

 considerable hurricane lumber in the New England area, this is being used at 

 the rate of more tlian a million board feet a week for boxes, mostly for war 

 purposes. The situation regarding nails for apple boxes appears to be consider- 

 ably brighter as a result of a recent conference in V/ashington. There would be 

 considerable wastage if packages were not available for perishable crops such 

 as apples. Nails for apple boxes now have a priority rating of A-l-C, which 

 is practically the same as for most military materials and considerably higher 

 than the A-7 rating previously given. Fruit growers should be able to obtain 

 box nails from their regular dealers. The dealer in turn, can make use of the 

 A-l-C priority rating. (These timely suggestions are from the June issue of 

 Seasonal Fruit Notos.) 



Do You Know 



That an inch of rainfall over an acre would fill 90 300-gallon spray 

 tanks and would weigh more than 100 tons? 



That Vermont produced more mapl-s products in 1942 than any other state? 

 Tree s tapped - Vt . , 4,000,000; N^., 3,111,000; U;^,, 9,814,000. Syrup made 

 (gals.") - Vt. , 1,310,000; N._Y • , 933,000; U_^- , 27302,000. 



That an apple has a definite life span? According to D.F. Fisher of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, "The harvested apple is a living organism with 

 a more or less definite potential span of life. If it 'lives too fast,' either 

 before or after picking, its vitality is exhausted prematurely and the time 

 it remains in good eating condition is shortened proportionately." 



That drying of apples, prunes and certain other fruits will be increased 

 greatly as a means of conserving tin? Processors v.ill be advised to use large 

 cans and not to put whole fruit in the cans. 



That not more than 22^ of all farms have tractors? But about 66J? of 

 all farms of more than 100 acres have them. 



That raspberry canes are sometimes rather badly damaged by the tree 

 cricket? This insect inserts its eggs deeply in the cane, in rows of 30 or 

 more eggs 'Uich. Numerous damaged canos vrero observed last season in a rasp- 

 berry planting in Andover, 



That the United States now has approximately 3200 community frozen- 

 food locker plants, with an average capacity of 300 lockers? It is estimated 

 that about three-fourths of these lockers are used by farm families. 



That blackberries were eaten in the Stonu Age? Explorations in re- 

 mains of Swiss lake villages of the Stone Age period shov/ that Stone Age folks 

 relished wild blackberries identical to the ones we know today. 



Forty Miles a n Hour 



Several weeks ago President Roosevelt requested cooperation in estab- 

 lishing a national automobile speed limit of 40 milej; an hour. The following 

 table shows why: 



