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A I'tote Cn Fire BligHt 



During a 10-year study ol' a Michigan pear orchard of the Bartlett variety, 

 more fire blight was observed in a clean culture-cover crop plot than in a sod- 

 mulch plot. Also blight infections were more frequently fatal to trees during 

 their vigorously grov/ing, non-bearing years than similar infections during later 

 years. As the trees came into bearing and growth became less vigorous and succule..t 

 they became more resistant to the invasion and rapid movement of the blight 

 organism. The decrease in growth and succulence of twigs was hastened by the 

 competition of the sod cover for moisture and mineral nutrients in the sod-mulch 

 plot thereby encouraging a type of growth resistant to blight infection. 



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A Nurseryman Says , — 



"'i/Vhy is the maintenance of the soil such an important problem? It can be 

 truly said- that the nurseryman has two bank accounts and each is of equal 

 importance. Into one bank he deposits his cash receipts; into the other bank 

 represented by his land, he must also deposit regularly a most iiaportant asset 

 a goodly increase of plant humus, an improvement of the mechanical condition of 

 the top soil and a little plant food. Withdraviral of the assets from either of 

 these banks faster than they are put in results in disaster." 



The apples in the top layer sell the first box; the 

 ones in the bottom layer sell the second. 



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In the Ijext Issue, — A Pruning Platform . In other fruit growing 

 regions particularly in California, hoirie-made elevated platforms 

 are coming into common use as a substitute for ladders in pruning. 

 Of adjustable height and with two movable planks which can be 

 shifted quickly and easily to plac^ the worker in a more favorable 

 position, this gadget is worthy of trial in New England. 'S. C. 

 Harrington of the Agricultural Engineering Department is preparing 

 a simple sketch for the next issue of FRUIT NOTES fmm which a 

 platform may be built. The construction is no more complicated 

 than that of a brush pusher and the platform may bo installed 

 on almost any type of truck. 



Ve get too zoon oldt 

 Und too late schmart. 



