FRUIT NOTES 

 Volume 6 Numb^jr 8 



August, 1342 



YI. H. Thios 

 Extension Horticulturist 



[n This Issue: 



Look at Your Treos 



Relation of VJeatlier to Red Mite Infestation 



Fertilizer Rationing 



Strav/berry "Nubbins" 



Chokecherries and X-Disease 



Priorities 



Truck Transportation 



Advice to Apple Pickers 



Tvifo Hew Apple Varieties 



Sericulture in Brazil 



Do You Know? 



Going Up 



Essentials and Non-essentials 



LOOK AT YOUR TREES 



Nov; is an o;)portune time to look at your trees and observe the condi- 

 tion of tlie foliage. Leaves should be a healthy j^reen (unless red mite has 

 bronzed them), with no evidence of dead leaf tissue. But perhaps some leaves 

 on some trees v;ill show dead brown areas, or edge burn, or yellowing, or other 

 evidence of malnutrition. In such cases, prompt diagnosis is essential to the 

 continued v/nll-being of the orchard. 



In ons of our, young orchards at the Experiment Station in Amhorst, 

 evidence of a mineral deficiency is nov/ becoming inoreasingly preval-,nt. In 



Issued by the Extension Service, V.'illard A. Munson, Director, in furtherance 

 of Acts of Way 8 and Jun,. 30, 1914, Massachusetts State College. United States 

 Department of Agriculture and County Extension Services cooperating. 



