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That grapes are produced commercially in 44 states and on a farn- 

 hone scale in every state in the Union? For the 16 years preceding 1939 

 the average annual farm value of grapes in the United States amounted to 

 about 049,000,000. California leads all other states in gross tonnage, v/ith 

 about 90 per cent of the total, while New York, Michigan, Ohio, and Fennsyl- 

 vajiia are the heaviest producing states in the eastern and central parts of 

 the country. 



That 150,000 pressure canners are being manufactured for this year's 

 canning season? On request of the Department of Agriculture, YfPB is allocat- 

 ing enough material for this much needed equipment. These canners will be 

 distributed under a rationing system through County USDA lYar Boards. 



That the early June price of strawberries on the Boston market this 

 season is about twice that of 1942? The quotations for last year ranged from 

 17 to 20 cents. This year the price was about 37 cents. 



That blueberries tend to keep their Vitamin C content longer than 

 other berries thus far tested? Being thicker skinned they injure less easily 

 and as a result the oxygen of the air v/hich is destructive to the vital 

 ascorbic acid is less likely to r each the cells beneath the skin. 



That ammonium sulfamate is very effective in killing chokecherries? 

 J. S. Bailej^ and L. Southwick used this material at several concentrations 

 and found that the speed of killing vms proportional to the concentration. 



That the use of peat in planting apple trees is under some growing 

 conditions of very doubtful value? In an experiment at M.S.C. started in 

 1939 there is no significant difference bet^veen the check and untreated trees 

 at the present time. 



That codling moth and Oriental fruit moth spend the winter as fully 

 grovm larvae in silken cocoons ? The bud moth spends the v;inter as a partly 

 grown larva v/hile the gypsy moth spends tho v/intcr in the egg stage. 



That frozen food lockers, which v;ere practically unknown during the 

 first Y/orld Yfar, now occupy an important place in our food preservation sys- 

 tem. Approximately 3,200 plants, serving more than a half million families, 

 almost three- fourths of them farmers, v/ere operating in 44 states on January 1, 

 1941. 



That 5 bushel baskets contain enough lumber to box 1500 rounds 

 machine gun ammunition? Save containers. Use them again. Men, machines 

 and materials once used to make food containers are now doing war v;ork. 



