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ISSN 0427-6906 



Fruit Notes rr. 



Prepared by the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences. _ — U ^SS • 



University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension System, '^^Or- 



United States Department of Agriculture, and Massachusetts Counties CooperM^. 



Editors: Wesley R. Autio and William J. Bramlage 



Volume 58, Number 4 

 FALL ISSUE, 1993 



Table of Contents 



Evaluation of Several Apple Roots tocks 

 in the 1984 NC-140 Planting 



Effects of Orchard Spray Program on Plant-feeding and 

 Predatory Spider Mites in Massachusetts Apple Orchards 



A Sampling Method for Detecting 

 Root-feeding Woolly Apple Aphids 



Chemical Growth Control: Ethephon as a Growth Retardant 



Food Prices, Expenditures, and Income 



