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June 28, 1945 



Prepared by the Fruit Program Committee 

 of the Extension Sej-vice 



V/. H. Thies, Extension Horticulturist 



C ontents 



Better Raspberry and Strawberry Plants 

 Soil Type Affects Mcintosh Color 

 Ylhy Some Apples Do Mot Sell 

 A Modern ViTitches ' Brew- 

 Picking Fruit 

 Cost of Fertility 

 Do You Know? 

 Seen and Heard in Maine 

 Control of Oriental Fruit Moth 

 Harvest Seasons of Principal Fruits 



BETTER RASPBERRY AND STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



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The more we work with plants the plainer it becomes that good 

 planting stock is worth whatever it costs over stunted or diseased plants. 

 Trying to get the right start with the wrong plants is asking for trouble, 

 expense and disappointment. 



lYe have been unable to find in Massachusetts a source of plants of 

 some of the more important varieties of red raspberries that is even reason- 

 ably disease-free. Diseased planting stock is worthless and may never bear 

 a crop. 



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

 1914, Vfillard A. Munson, Director, Massachusetts State College, United Statos 

 Department of Agriculture, and County Extension Services cooperating. 



