September 30, 1944 



Prepared by the Fruit Progrroa Comnittee 

 of the Extension Service 



1Y. H. Thies, Extension Horticulturist 



Content 8 



Hurricane Apple Purchase Program 



Pornological Paragraphs 



Nursery Inspection 



CaiT you Afford to Renove some of Your Trees? 



Tree .Ripened Fruit 



"Farn Help Can't Take It" 



V/hat is DN? 



Do You Know? 



HURRICAIiS APPLE PURCH.^E PROGRAM 



At least 150 carloads of hurricane apples v/ill be purchased in 

 Massachusetts. The program is now under way v/ith headquarters at the County 

 Extension Building in Concord (tel. Concord 202). 1/7. P. Bauer, a represent- 

 ative of the "ffar Food Adnini strati on, is in charge of this nev/ program. 

 Full details iriay be obtained from any of the county agricultural agents 

 or froK tlie Uon>3crd headquarters. The minimum offering is 100 bushels of 

 one variety. Applos must conform to the U.S. Utility Grade with the ex- 

 ception that bruises affecting, in the aggregatp-, not more than 10^ of the 

 surface with no one bruise larger than an inch in diarueter, will be accept- 

 able; also, serious damag*;! in the form of cuts or punctures v;ill be allowed 

 on only 15^, of the apples. The toleruico for apple maggot injury ip only 

 5% and for decay, 1%^ The variety name must be st&jiiped or v-ritten on each 

 container. Two slats are required on corrugated covers and three sjLats on 

 cardboard covers. Apples may be packed in either bus}iel baskets, standard 

 bushel bojsres or crates, or nev; fiber boxen, A minimum carload consists of 

 793 bushd'ls. 'All apples offered to tlie WA must be inspected, and ^.nspec- 

 tion charges are to be paid by the vendor. 



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

 191-i, V.'illard A. Munson, Director, Massachusetts State College, United State* 

 Department of Agriculture, and County Extension Services cooperating. 



