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The marketing season of 19h9 has many of the earmarks of 19U7 and 19l|Ii„ 

 The memories of 19h7 are still vivid. The rate of out-of-storage movement r for 

 this year may be of particular significance in planning marketing operation. 



-- Fred E. Cole 



I9U9 Apple Purchase Program Announced for Massachusetts . Authorization has been 

 received by the State FliA Office to purchase apples for the school lunch program 

 and for export. The I9I49 apple crop in the New England area is about 60^ above 

 that of last year and ij.0^ above the ten-year average. The offer to purchase has 

 been made in response to a request of apple growers from the New England area and 

 the whole country. The total amount of apples to be purchased in i^iassachusetts is 

 28 cars during the month of October, but the rate of purchase will be limited by 

 the capacity of the school lunch program to take the fruit. Authorization is 

 expected to purchase additional supplies in later months at approximately 9 cars 

 per week. The price will be ^1.70 per bushel for U.S. No. I's of the following 

 varieties: Baldwin, Cortland, Delicious, Golden Delicious, Liclntosh, Northern 

 Spy? Rome Beauty and R. I. Greening. Apples may be packed in either bushel baskets 

 or Eastern apple crates protected in the usual way by liners and covers. Shipment 

 will be made in car lots of 560 bushels per car or the equivalent in truck lots. 



An office of purchase has been established in the Middlesex County PI/iA Office 

 on Stow Street, Concord, in the Old High School Building. The Purchase Representa- 

 tive is ■;:. T. Pearse of Bclton. His telephone number at the office is Concord 1299. 

 The State PM Committee will be assisted in the administration of the program by 

 an advisory committee of representatives of the Extension Service and the State 

 Department of Agriculture together with the following apple growers: Roger E. Peck, 

 George S. Gay, Ben Drew, Archer L. Pierce, Harold Priest, Stephen M . Sabine, 

 ■George S. Davis, H. Sidney Vaughan, and Leander B. Nichols. . This Advisory 

 Committee is established to assist the PM in carrying out the terms and conditions 

 0^ the Apple Purchase Program. This program has two features. The first one is 

 designed to increase the export of apples to foreign countries and carries a propo- 

 sal of an export subsidy not to exceed vl.25 a bushel, in addition to the amount 

 paid by foreign countries. The second feature of the program contem.plates the 

 purchase of apples for use in the school lunch program and distribution to eligible 

 \velfare institutions. The program is what is known as a surplus removal program 

 and is not to be confused with the programs which are designed to support and 

 maintain a certain market price for farm commodities. 



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New Leaflet , " Apples At Any Meal ". An attractive and highly useful 

 leaflet on the use of apples has been prepared by iiay E. Foley, Extension 

 Nutritionist. It includes recipes for fruit cup, salads, relishes, main 

 dishes and desserts, using the common ingredients v;hich all homemakers 

 have. It gives suggestions for canning juice and apple sauce, and 

 for using these products in the winter. A copy may be obtained from 

 your county extension agent or from the L'ailing Room at the University. 

 Just ask for Special Circular No. I56. 



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No September Fruit Notes . No issue of FRUIT NOTES vras 

 distributed during the nonth of September. 



