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Preventing Frost Damage. By the time this issue of Fruit Notes is re- 

 ceived a new mimeographed leaflet No. 134, "Frost Prevention for the 

 Orchard," by YI, D. Weeks will be available. A copy may be obtained 

 from your County Extension office or from the State College. It tells 

 the conditions under v/hich frosts occur and offers some practical sug- 

 gestions. If it were easy to insure against frost damage most growers 

 would do something about it. For an orchard in a frosty location, how- 

 ever, preventive measures are both expensive and laborious. 



HOUSING for orchard workers will be the key to the labor problem, 36 mem- 

 bers of Yfenatchee Farm Vforkers Housing, Inc., agree. They plan to enlarge 

 a $25,000 housing facility which started as a tent camp, adding new build- 

 ings. (Adequate housing at harvest time is also a critical problem in 

 Massachusetts.) 



Boron Deficiency in Massachus etts S oils. Dr. F. E. Bear of Rutgers Univer- 

 sity states that crops grov/ing on Gloucester, Merriraac, and V/ethersf ield 

 soils are frequently benefitted by borax applications. These soils are 

 all found in Massachusetts, Dr. A. B. Beaumont, State Conservationist for 

 Massachusetts, advises that most of the outwash soils in Massachusetts are 

 likely to need borax. 



Are you interested in irrigation? The v;riter has recent- 

 ly received two copies of an excellent booklet entitled, 

 "Supplemental Irrigation." They are available on a loan 

 basis to any reader of Fruit Notes. 



AMAZING RESULTS in the use of DDT on 800 acres of apples at Paw Paw, Vir- 

 ginia, are reported by Henry W. Miller, Jr. Codling moths trapped in 10 

 bait pails in May, rose from 546 in 1943 to 1,070 in 1944, to 2,536 in 

 1945. June figures were: 1943 - 204; 1944 - 236; 1945 - 60. 

 July: 1943 - 365; 1944 - 1,048; 1945 - 42. Percent of v;ormy apples: 

 1942 - 2; 1943 - 11; 1944 - 22; 1945 - less than ^ of 1. 



A few days' delay in mimeographing and mailing this issue 

 of Fruit Notes is due in part to a heavy volume of work 

 in the Mailing Room and a small staff plus a few part time 

 student vrorkers . Besides many individual releases. Fruit 

 Notes is only one of several regular publications to go 



through the mill." if it is held up temporarily we console 

 ourselves by knowing that something of an emergency nature 

 has priority, or perhaps the anticipated student assistance 

 didn't materialize. 



