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Apple Crop "Guesstimate" The national apple crop this year is estimated at 

 103,ii56,000 bushels compared to 112,935,000 in 1951. T^e Massachusetts crop is 

 estimated at 2,U00,000 this year. Last year it was 3,516,000. Other New England^ 

 States also show a decline, vri.th the least reduction in haine, - about 1,150,000 in 

 both years. The total for New England this year is 21,U95,000. Last year it was 

 26,614)4,000. In the West, a better crop is in prospect. Washington has an 

 estimated crop of 23,068,000, about 3,000,000 more than 1951. California, vfibh 

 10,565,000 has about 2,000,000 more. Virginia is also in the favored class, with an 

 iBcrease of about half a million, - 10,577,000 this year and 10,06i4,000 in 1951. 



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282U IL1GG0T FLIES PER TEIEE 



The crop carried in 1951 by a group of unsprayed 'Iclntosh trees in 



central L^assachusetts fell to the ground and remained there. This June 



a cheese cloth cage was constructed to cover 2U square feet of the area 

 under one of these trees. 



Kaggot flies began to appear in the cage soon after July I4. On 

 July 25, a peak catch of 21 flies was taken from the cage. Previously 

 the highest for any one day had been 11. 



Through July 28 a grand total of lOU apple maggot flies had emerged 

 in that cage ~ over h flies per square foot. 



Each tree in this block covers approximately 700 square feet — over 

 2800 flies per tree or 8l4.,O0O flies from an acre growing 30 such trees ~ 

 and the 1952 emergence is not yet complete i 



-- E, H, \^flieeler 

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 i'<r COUNTY AGENT'S C0RI\IER 



Quality Fruit Grower ^^^^^ emphasizes some of the fundamentals 



Max Fultz, Iiiddlesex County 



The difficulty of pest control this 

 emphasizes some of the fundamental 

 that have been connected with spraying 



Growerf "* if interest sd^^c^o ^u'lV- our ^P^rations since the modem conception of 

 nowrL>,n.,o^^!rLr.4'' "^^^^"^ '^ '''' .>he fruit business. V^th scab and cur- 



County Agricultural Agent. 



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^culio both at their worst this year and 

 „with codling moth increasingly serious 

 „the value of complete coverage has had a 

 jpronounced influence on pest control. 



One can get a terrific story from observing a tree from bottom to top. 

 Gradual increase of the height of trees, excessive rain and continuous, windy 

 conditions have emphasized the situation this year. Primary infection in the top of 

 trees even though it may have started with only a few spots, spreads to apples and 

 lower leaves with great rapidity, when rainfall is excessive. As a matter of fact 

 if tops ajre not kept clean, normal weather conditions will cause serious spread and 

 build-up . 



That nasty little curculio is adept at finding holes in the spray cover. If 

 lower apples are too well sprayed, he will seek those in the tops on which the 

 cover is not sufficient. For curculio, the cover must not only be there, but it must 



