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Only a rotation of crops can solve this problem. If a nevf cherry tree is planted 

 in this soil it vdll grov;- more slowly and will die a fevf years later. But an 

 apple or pear tree vd-ll grov/ as well as if it were planted in a virgin soil. 



There is a question whether this soil could be better utilized by planting 

 peach trees or certain kinds of berries. The many small parcels of land, hovfever, 

 make larger plantations quite impossible. This difficulty might be overcome by 

 arranging a community plan (Gemeinschaftsanlage) . Choice of varieties, cultivation, 

 and protection of the plants might be organized according to a uniform plan. Under 

 no circumstances should good soil be neglected since economy of our natural 

 resources is of the greatest importance, 



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Parathion Injury to Apples . A careful check of this material 

 shoves that the foliage injury is restricted to nev/ growth. 

 Young, immature leaves may be burned at the margins or even 

 completely killed. Leaves frequently 'become wrinkled and 

 goose-necked. The damage resembles that caused by lime 

 sulfur. Trees are most susceptible to injury before or just 

 after bloom, Parathion is also responsible for fruit injury 

 and there appear to be varietal differences. Injury has been 

 observed only on Hclntosh and Cortland v/hile Baldwin and others 

 are more resistant. Injury takes the forra of brovm spots 

 beneath droplets leaving heavy spray deposits. In storage such 

 apples lose moisture and become dimpled at the injured points. 

 Rain follovri.ng within one or two days of spraying seems to 

 influence the amount of injury. Sometimes a single spray may 

 cause as much fruit injury as five dosages. 



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Borrowed Pointers From Connecticut spray messages vre borrow two bits 

 of v/isdom. Our good neighbor, in turn, may have borrowed them from 

 someone else. (1) This striking comparison to illustrate the immense 

 nuniber of scab spores in an orchard, - "It has been estimated that any 

 single individual in the U. S. has a better chance of becoming 

 President than an apple scab spore has of starting an infection. And 

 suppose these scab spores grev; to be the size of baseballs as fast as 

 they are released. If you were to go into an apple orchard after a 

 spring rain started, in about 1^ minutes you'd be wading in baseballs 

 up to your knees." (2) A timely ditty, - "I spray by daj'-. I spray by 

 night. And in betvreen I dust 'em. And if these ex]«rts paid the bill, 

 I'm very sure 't vrould bust 'em." 



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Some Changes in U.S. Apple Grades Here are the principal changes 

 in the newly revised U.S. standards: addition of a U.S. Extra 

 Fancy grade, stricter color and russetting requirements for U. S. 

 Fancy which is otherwise the sane as U.S. No'. 1, change of U.S. 

 Comriercial designation to U.S. No. 1 Cookers, and deleting of U.S. 

 Utility Early grade. A simple statement of the requirements of 

 the three upper grades (U.S. Extra Fancy, U.S. Fancy, and U.S, No. 1) 

 each on a single sheet, has been prepared in Amherst and will be 

 available to interested growers soon, 



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