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per hour waving a wide open ^un in a majiner reminiscent 

 of an orchestra leader. At a distance it looked as if 

 he might be covering a third of the tree. In the second 

 orchard, the ca'mcr had cut off the tops of his trees 

 in the hope that it would facilitate his pest control. 

 The uprij^ht tilt of all the branches in these 20-y3ar- 

 old trees shaded that they had never borne much fruit. 

 On inquiry we found that he had gone through the 

 motions of spraying 3 times last year, that he had 

 applied 3 gallons of material ■'m Iviclnt:'sh trees which 

 should have 10, and that the leaves dropped very early. 

 Incidentally, in spite of a good soil the trees will 

 bloom very lightly this spring possibly because of 

 early defoliation. 



TIP'S FROM THE MEN \\W SSLL TH5H 



Tv;o extension schools have been held for the purpose of helping 

 storekeepers to ijtiprove the handling of fruits and vegetables. One 

 school was held in Fall River and the other in Greenfield, The school 

 consisted of a series of five me /tings with one meeting being held each 

 v;eek. At each meeting sorae phase of merchandising fruits anc. vegetables 

 was discussed. It has been the privilege of the writer to present the 

 subject of fruit handling at each of the schools, A few significant 

 complaints v/ere expressed at each of these schools by the storek^;epers, 



1. The storekeepers in Fall River are forced to use out'^of-state 

 apples because of a lack of native fruit, 



2. The storek .epers in Greenfield complain tiiat they were unable 

 to get good hand picked Mcintosh in the fall. The only Iviclntosh they 

 could get wore drops and they c^uld sell a lot of good Mcintosh if they 

 could get them. They also wish that they could get more pears as there 

 is a good market which they are unable to supply. Vihen asked about 

 grapes, they all agreed that they arc unable to get nearly enough local 

 grapes to supply the demand. One merchant told of buying out-of-state 

 grapes in bulk and then putting them up in tv/o quart till baskets. He 

 said that he sold them almost as fast as he cculd put them up, and could 

 have sold a great many more if he had had them. 



0, C , Roberts 



POLLIIJATION OF FRUITS IH HEW EHGLAKD 



Apples ; Probably all varieties of apples produce higher yields v/hen cross- 

 pollinated although Baldwin sets profitable crops '.vhen planted alone. 

 Good Pollenizers: Early Blooming - Red Astrachan, Oldenburg, Llclntosh, 

 Fameuso, V/agener, Yellow Transparent, Hidseason Blooming - Vioalthy, 

 Delicious (Starking, Richared), Golden DeliciousV Wolf Rivsr, Cortland, 



