February 18, 1943 



Prepared by the Fruit Program Cormittee 

 of the Extension Service 



W. H. Thies, Extension Horticulturist 



Contents 



Low Temperatures and Possible Injury to Trees 



Good Grapes from Your Tangled Vine 



Do You Knov/? 



Russeting of Golden Delicious 



Relation Betv/een Date of Bloom and Date of Harvest 



Planning for the New Orchard 



Lime and Manure 



I.Iore About Cold Injury to Peaches 



Pruning Vfinter Injured Peach Trees 



Order Bees Early 



Salvage and Re-use of Fruit & Vegetable Containers 



The Victory Tax 



La? T E MPERATURES AHD POSSIBLE INJURY TO TREES 



The official temperature in Amherst on Tuesday, February 16 (-23° F.) 

 was the third lov/est on record. Other sections of the State report unofficial 

 temperatures as low as -40°. The second lowest in Amherst was -2Zq on Jan- 

 uary 24, 1907 and the lowest was -26 on January 5, 1904. The lowest temper- 

 ature recorded during the "cold winter" of 1933-34, when considerable injury 

 to fruit trees occurred, was -22° on February 9, 1934. Have you examined 

 your Baldwin trees or your peach trees for possible v;inter injury? Sone ob- 

 servations concerning cold weather effects on fruittrees, and wartime recom- 

 mendations, will be included in the March issue of Fruit Notes. 



For v;hat avail 

 The plough or sail 

 Or land or life, - 

 If freedom fail? 



■-Ralph Vj'aldo Emerson 



Issued by the Extension Service in furtherance of Acts of May 8 and June 

 30, 1914, V/'illard A. Munson, director, Massachusetts State College, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and County Extension Services cooperating. 



