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That lack of crop due to insufficient pollination or to a poor spray 

 program are two reasons why many apple trees grow too tall? By the time these 

 shortcomings have been corrected, branches which would otherwise bend down- 

 ward, are too stiff to be influenced to any extent. Other reasons for tall 

 trees are orchard crovuding and the development of two or more leaders. 



That a Quad spray nozzle with 5/64th inch disc opening will deliver 

 about 6 3/4 gallons at 300 lbs. pressure and 8 l/S gallons per minute at 400 

 lbs. pressure? The spray drive, or distance the mist \dll carry, is stepped 

 up from 15 to 17 feet by increasing the pressure from 300 to 400 lbs. Added 

 spray drive helps to provide coverage on otherwise poorly covered top branches. 



That the civilian population of the United States consumed about 75^0 

 of our total food supply last year? In reality the civilian supply is slightly 

 higher than 75%, although for practical purposes the total food supply may be 

 divided as follows: civilians, 75^o} our armed forces, 13^^; our allies, lO^j, 

 and our territories and neighbors, including Porto Rice, Hav/aiian Islands and 



That a bushel of apples sold in Ilichigan last fall for 4-325? This was 

 the svireepstake bushel at the apple shoi'/, a bushel of liclntosh grovm by Homer 

 Waring, and ii/as auctioned to the highest bidder, the money being used for charit- 

 able purposes. 



That our first knowledge of the plow, as used by man, comes from wall 

 paintings in the tombs of Egyptian nobl»)s of 3,000 years ago? The plowman is 

 shovm at work in a field with a plow rnade of a forked tree, one branch left 

 long and attached to the ox yoke, the other cut short and pointed, to be dragged 

 through the soil, and the butt of the tree was shaped into a handle. The Greeks 

 used plows of a similar type^ to which they added a metal point. The points for 

 this primitive type of plow, made of a forked tree, were still made in Connecti- 

 cut as late as 1923 for shipment to the backwoods in South America. 



That almost 17,000 food stores distribute fruits and vegetables to Nev\r 

 York City customers? Of this number, independent grocery stores number about 

 one-third, chain grocery stores about one-tenth, and meat markets only 3jo. 

 The weekly sales of fruits and vegetables averaged in chain stores from 12 to 

 14^^ of all sales and they handled from 14 to 17^j of the total fruit tonnage. 



That the term "bearing age fruit trees" is very often a misnomer? 

 T/Yriting in the Rural New Yorker, II, B. Tukey says, "There is nothing wrong 

 with the idea of bearing age trees, \j7ien trees are well grown in a nursery 

 for this purpose, are transplanted in the nursery once or twice to develop a 

 compact root system, and v/hen a first class article is delivered, there is much 

 to be said for the bearing age tree. The difficulty lies in the fact that so 

 many bearing age trees are nothing more than left overs from seasons when the 

 demand for nursery stock was not high. Such trees may have been neglected in 

 the row, may have suffered foliage injury and borer attack} and may have other- 

 ivise been subjected to mistreatment. Vflien such trees are dug and delivered as 

 bearing age trees the planter really gets an inferior product and is inclined 

 to be disgusted, not only with bearing age trees, but v>rith the nurseryraan who 

 supplies them," 



