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That the first large commercial nursery in America vras established 

 by Robert Prince about 1830, at Flushing, Long Island? The Prince catalog 

 of 1794 is said to have contained as many varieties of fruits as some of the 

 present day nursery catalogs, apricots and nectarines being represented by 

 10 varieties each. The catalog of 1845 enumerated 345 varieties of apples 

 alone. 



That the Ben Davis variety, because of its splendid keeping quali- 

 ties and attractive color, became knovm among orchardists of the Civil V/ar 

 period as the "mortgage lifter?" In New England, the Baldv/in has performed 

 that service on many a farm and so deserves a well earned claim to the same 

 title. 



That it was an old-time custom, observed by many people when eating 

 an apple, to select a favorable spot and press the seeds into the ground with 

 a turn of the boot? This may help to account for some of the millions of 

 wild apple trees Virhich dot the New England landscape. 



That food production in the U.S. has increased fully one-quarter 

 while the number of farms has declined one-tenth? Theodore Schultz, Univer- 

 sity of Chicago Agricultural Economist, believes that by 1950 four million 

 farms in the U.S. will produce a third more food than did the six million 

 farms before the war. 



That the yield of apples from the Byrd orchards in Virginia in 1942 

 amounted to 1,200,000 bushels, or about one per cent of the U.S. crop? The 

 Berryville Orchard, with 1500 acres and 70,000 bearing trees, produced about 

 half of this total. The five most important varieties and the percentage 

 of each are as follows: Delicious - 20j York - 16; Stayman - 16; Rome 

 Beauty - 14; T/inesap - 12. 



That wild blackberry plants growing near peach orchards provide win- 

 ter quarters for strawberry leafroller worms which in turn are hosts to the 

 beneficial Macrocentrus ancylivorous, parasite enemy of the Oriental fruit 

 moth? Vfe are not yet ready to recommend encouraging the wild blackberry, 

 however, because of other problems v/hich might arise. 



That the United Stateis now has 5,282 frozen-food locker plants? In 

 Iowa, v/hich has the most, there are 580 plants. Minnesota is second with 

 470, and \Tashington State is third v;ith 404. Last year's increase was 723 

 new plants, not counting additions to old ones or plants still under con- 

 struction. 



That Florida now has an estimated 377,450 acres of bearing citrus 

 groves, with about 6000 acres a year of nevir acreage coming into bearing? 

 present groves consist of 251,340 acres of oranges, 95,190 of grapefruit, 

 23,420 of tangerines and 7500 of limes. 



That the fruit juice pack for the whole U.S., including Hawaii, in 

 1935, was 9,317,000 caaes v^hile in 1943 it was 39,202,000 cases? The packs 

 of the various juicea were about as follov/s: grapefruit - 20^029,. 700; 

 pineapple - 8,600,000; orange 2,702,000; other citrus juices and concentrates 

 - 2,789,000; grape * 1,500,000; apple - 1,000,000; nectars and miscellaneous 

 juices - 1,000,000; and prune - 450,000 cases. 



