June 18, 1943 



Prepared by the Fruit Program Coinmittee 

 of the Extension Service 



W. H. Thies, Extension Horticulturist 



Contents 



Fruit Prospects 



The Women's Land Army 



Curculio on Non-Bearing Trees 



Do You Know? 



Cardboard and Fiber Apple Boxes 



Do Bees Injure Ripe Fruit? 



Grass and Fruit Trees 



The Packed Lunch 



Additional Nitrogen Released 



Half and Half 



Where Water Stands 



Handling Apples from Tree to Table 



Cutting Hay in an Orchard 



FRUIT PROSPECTS 



Early estimates of the 1943 apple crop indicate at least 10 million 

 bushels less than in 1942. The peach crop v/ill be about 20 million bushels 

 less. This 50-million-bushel shortage is only about 5% of the Nation's fruit 

 crop. The 19 major fruits, grown in this country, grossed in 1942 the re- 

 spectable total of 15,107,259 tons. 



At a fruit meeting at the Chandler farm in Sterling, June 11, attended 

 by more than 150 growers, the following estimates of the 1943 crop, in com- 

 parison with 1943, were obtained. The total represents about 25)o of the com- 

 mercial crop in Massachusetts. 



Mcintosh 

 Baldwin 

 Delicious 

 Other varieties 

 Total 



1945 



461,000 bu. 



67,000 bu. 



33,000 bu. 



78,000 bu. 



1942 

 500,000 bu. 

 115,000 bu. 



26,000 bu. 



93,000 bu. 



% increase or decrease 



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Issued by the Extension Service in furtherance of Acts of May 8 and June 30, 

 1914, YiTillard A. Munson, director, Massachusetts State College, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, and County Extension Services cooperating. 



