That the output of 3,800 typical farms is required to load an average 

 ship with Lend-Lease foods? The following list of items might constitute such 

 an output: Eggs laid in one year by 230,000 hens; Fill: production from 6,000 

 cows for one year; Meat from 5,000 hogs; Lard from 27,000 hogs; 7/heat from 

 850 acres. 



That total fruit production in the U. S. in 1944 will probably be about 

 11^ smaller than in 1943? Prospects are that only the prune and grape crops 

 will be larger, by 12 and llfo respectively, while deciduous tree fruits and 

 grapos are expected to yield about ll/o less than last season. Citrus fruit 

 prospects are about as favorable as a year ago. 



That large amounts of ammonium nitrate fertilizer are likely to be 

 available for fruit grov/ers during the coming season? This material carries. 

 about 33;o nitrogen or approximately twice as much as nitrate of soda. It 

 does not keep well in handling and if stored should be kept cool and dry. 

 This new fertilizer may be widely used in New England orchards next spring. 



That a number of items of farm machinery are no longer being rationed? 

 An increase in the allocation of steel for farm machinery in 1944 has resulted 

 in the removal of the following items from the rationing list, beginning Oct- 

 ober 16: dusters, disc harrows, tractors, moldboard plows, cultipackers, land 

 rollers, grain binders and threshing machines. All other heavy machinery is 

 still rationed. 



That apple scab infection was so severe in certain unsprayed orchards 

 this season as to result in almost complete defoliation by early September? 

 0. C. Boyd and Thomas Sprostoh report commercial losses from apple scab rang- 

 ing from a trace to 25^^ in sprayed orchards, and 50-lOOj^ in unsprayed orchards. 

 A few inexperienced grov;ers have attributed the browning of Mcintosh leaves 

 and later defoliation to spray injury, whereas lack of scab control was large- 

 ly responsible. 



That a total of 194,775 tons of lime, enough to make 3,900 car loads, 

 is used every year in the United States in connection with agricultural in- 

 secticides and fungicides? Fungicides make about 2/3 of the total or 125,000 

 tons, and the insecticides make the remaining 69,775 tons. In apple orchards 

 where large quantities of sulfur are being used, without lime, the soil is 

 becoming so acid that the growi^h of ordinary grasses and weeds is greatly re- 

 duced. 



That the attempt to control harmful insects dates back to the early 

 days of the Roman Empire? Caterpillars on fruit trees could be controlled, 

 according to Cato, by moistening the tips of the twigs with the gall of a 

 green lizard. Pliny recommended that the bones of a mare's head be hung on 



