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FRUIT PEST CONTROL IN GREAT BRITAIN 



The ingenuity of the people of Great Britain is v;ell illustrated 

 in a group which has come to be knovm as Britain's "Golden Angels." The 

 girls of Great Britain are doing work of every description during these 

 wartime days that have taken men from their normal posts of work. Included 

 are the multitude of tasks that must be done in the orchard. The girls are 

 being trained thoroughly in the use of all apparatus and in the technical 

 principles of spraying. Recently, a corps of spraying girls was formed in 

 an endeavor to free orchards and fruit plantations from pests. One of the 

 sprays generally used has the effect of turning the skin a bright golden 

 yelloT/. As a result, the spraying girls have become knovm throughout Britain 

 as the "Golden Angels." (Let's hope that the material they are using is not 

 liquid lime sulfur.) 



J. H. Putnam, former county agent in Franklin County, says, "Right 

 now there is only one thing we should all be thinking of; that is 

 what we can do to help win this war. No sacrifice is too great - 

 no surrender of ordinary rights too momentous - no privation too hard 

 to bear. Wiy should mq gruinble about rationing of sugar, and oil, 

 and gas, parity - subsidy, labor troubles, and heavy taxes, when 

 our boys are offering their all - even their lives?" 



THE PLACE OF SHALL FRUI TS IN THE IIOIE GARDEN PRO GRAI.I 



Home owners throughout Massachusetts are v/ondering whether or not 

 fruits of various kinds should be included in the Victory Garden. To ansv/er 

 questions along this line, the Department of pomology lias prepared the fol- 

 lowing statement covering the various small fruits. 



Vfhere space is limited and the garden is a wartiiiifi measure only, 

 small fruits should not be grown in preference to vegetables. However, 

 they make a welcome and valuable addition to the diet, V.'here space is 

 available and the garden is to be continued for tv^o or more years, some 

 of the small fruits may well be included. No small fruit plant should be 

 allowed to fruit the first season except "everbearing" strawberries, which 

 are not generally satisfactory. Small fruits should not be planted in the 

 middle of the vegetable garden, 



StraviTberries bring the quickest returns. Plants set this spring 

 will bear a crop next spring. Fifty plants should supply a family of four. 

 For best results new plants should be set each spring. Grapes usually bear 

 the third year and continue for many years. Quicker returns maybe had from 

 renovation of old vines, since they are capable of producing a crop the 

 next fall. Red Raspberrie s bear a small crop the second year and should 

 come into full bearing the third year. Boysen berries are not recommended 

 for general planting in this state but ;iay suc^ceed'on lighter soils. Blue- 

 berries come into full pi'oduction so slov/ly that they are not well adapted 

 to the wartime garden. 



One definition of Entomology - "Gettin' right in among the bugs 

 and watohin' 'em work." 



