For Your Date rook — £^y 20 and July 21 

 Ti'iese are Fanu LUid Home '.."eek dates for 

 fruit |:rov;ers - ti:e first for f^rov.'ers of 

 small fruits aJid the second for ^ro\?ers of 

 tree fruits. The place is University of 

 iilassachu setts in ArJierst. — — — — — 



Interested in protect in;; Fruits A.:':ainst Zirds? If robins, 

 catbirds and other feat'.^ered creatures' are ^ettinj^ a major 

 sj:are of your blueberries or sweet cherries, you may ivant 

 to provide a protective covering of tobacco clotli netting. 

 This material may no^v be obtained in small quantities at 

 reasonable cost. It comes in 11-yard v;idths. For further 

 details, contact the co;,:,;iler of FRUIT KOTES. 



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Blossom ThinninK; v/ith i.aphthalone Acetic Acid 

 This iiiaijic aaterial, v-'hicii' has proven so effective 

 in holdin[j auplss :;n the tr ^io at harvest time, is 

 also effective in the removal 'f excess blossoms. 

 Several growers have tried it this season, and 

 careful tests arc being conducted by members of the 

 Experiment Station Staff. The results v/ill be 

 observed v/ith roai interest. 



Wurscr^/ Inspection Trips. The first of tv/o nursery expeditions tiirough 

 eastern U. S., conducted by the members of the pomologj- uepartment, v;ill 

 begin on June 28. This trip v;ill involve nurseries along tiie Atlantic 

 Seaboard as far sjuth as Virginia. A second trip in August v/ill take the 

 group as far v;est as lovia. These inspocti'^ns for Truenoss-to-irarae v/hich 

 have been cmducted since i;>21, have cleared un varietv mixtures aiaount- 

 ing to hundreds of thousands of trees. Today most eastern nurseries are 

 fairly free of misnamed trees, 



Apple Crop Prospects. (Statement prepared by C. I), Stevens and A. C. Hackendorf 

 '"^f the II. E. Crop Reporting Service.) The united States apple crop in commercial 

 areas is indicated by June 1 conditions t.) be moderately smaller than both last 

 year and average. Pr-. spects vfere reduced by poor pollination v/eather during Lay, 

 especially in the Central States, T)ie crop varies from one to tv.'o v;esks earlier 

 tnan last year in the East to about tw^'j v.oeks later in the Pacific C »ast States. 



For the Middle ^itltaitic States, a crop of about the same size as last year and 

 moderately smaller than average seems probable, Hov;ever, the lateness of the 

 season, cool, rainy v/eather at bloom time, ejid the uncertainty as to the size of 

 the June drop makes any statement hazardous at this time. In 1:1 ew York , frost dam- 

 age was light except for a few Hudson Valley sites, but there v«as much rain and 

 cold weather during the pollination period. In Pennsylvania, the heavy bloom in 

 the important Adjuns-Pranklin-Yjrk area did not produce a heavy set because of rain 

 and frost at bloom time, Jonathans Luid Roaes appear to have good prospects but 

 Staymans, Delicious, a:id Yorks appear very li^^ht. In the So uth Atlantic Statos , 

 ^Tuv.'crs report an unusually ne-<vy drop during ^lay and tl:e crop nrospecc is nov^ 

 belov/ average but about one half larger than the short 1947 crop. In the Central 

 States, June 1 conditions indicate a smaller crop than l;i3t ;,''-ar in most States 



