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cannon for dusting; "After the war we apple grcjwers should apply to War 

 Department for all the old worn out cannon. Then our dusting problems 

 could be solved. V/hy not load the cannon with properly mixed fungicide 

 and insecticide with right amount of explosive then have time fuses so 

 set that a set of cannon would go off about once a week during the spray 

 season? Then we growers could all enjoy ourselves off fishing. Pephaps 

 vie could find some way to reverse the process or use a vacuum and suck 

 off all the apples at harvest time and thus save a lot of picking labor." 



A OrJE~;.IAN SPRAYER OUTFIT 



For his ingenuity in building a very successful one-man outfit for 

 spraying a Jarge bearine; orchard, Vfilson Morse of Y/'aterford, Maine deserves 

 recognition.- The thoroughness with which he spray^^ his relatively tall 

 trees is indicated ty the faot that he has been able to produce for a num- 

 ber of years crops of oppAes scoring at least 90Jo clean with no more than 

 three sj.\ray appli jailor;-.. It should be borne in mind, of course, that 

 certain posts including curculio are not as troublesome in Maine as they 

 are in Wassarhusotts . The nozzle mechanism on Mr. Morse's sprayer is 

 suspended at tho top of a pipe about 10 feet long and is so arranged that 

 the dri-;er is able to manipulate the "broom" in either a vertical or hori- 

 zontal direction. Quoting from a recent letter, "The pump is under. the 

 tractor seat and is chain driven from a ball bearing power take-off on the 

 front transmission. Two five-speed transmissions give us 24 different 

 forward speeds, one of which is right for any size trees without stopping. " 



SUMIilARY OF TAIFA APPLE BUYING PROGRAM 



Massachusetts growers wore paid a total of $310,929.50 for hurricane 

 apples purchased by the 7ff A,. These apples were distributed to institutions 

 of various kinds and through the school lunch program in a number of southern 

 states. One carload was shipped as far west as Ncth Dakota. Of the 

 218, £50 bushels of apples p'j.rcha!=edj 150,933 bushels were in Group 1 

 (mostly Mcintosh) and 67,582 bushelo were in Gt'Oup 2. Prices paid for 

 apples in these two classes vrere ^1,50 and ^1.25 per bushelj respectively. 

 If all of these apple boxes v;ere placed end to end, the row of boxes would 

 reach from Amherst to Northboro,and that's a lot of apples I 



DDT NOT A CURE-ALL 



The new wonder insecticide DDT shows promise for the control of cod- 

 ling moth, oriental fruit moth, peach tree borer, Japanese beetle, raspberry 

 crovm borer, and several species of leaf hopper, but is not promising for 

 the control of curculio or red mite. It destroys certain predators and par- 

 asites, particularly those of the oriental moth and red mite, and also may be 

 bad for bees., M-^j'thods of preparing it for appJication as a spray or dust 

 have not been ■'■■rorked out nor is it yet known whether toxicity for humans may 

 be found- Furth'jrmore , it is not available to the general public. For these 

 reasors it is not yet recommended to the fruit grovrer. (N.J. Hort. News, 

 Vol. 25, page 1636, Nov., 1944. 



— J. K. Shaw 



