pineapple Juice, Present day competition among the different kinds of juice is 

 very keen, A product must be good if it is to find a ready sale on the market. 

 People who form a habit of drinking orange juice Vidll not change to apple juice 

 unless it is either more palatable, cheaper, or both. And the tremendous variation 

 in the apple juice or cider offered for sale has created a "buyer beware" attitude. 

 Vfe need new standards for apple juice and elimination of some of the drinks sold 

 under that name. 



Plant Patents . Dxiring the 20-year period, 1931-19^1, a total of 10^8 Plant 

 Patents were issued, practically all on fruits and ornamentals. The largest number 

 was on Roses, ^29. Peaches were next with 6?. Other fruits were as follov/s; Apple 

 32; Strawberry, 18 j Nectarine, 13 j Plum, 13; Apricot, 10; Cherry, 9; Grape, 7; 

 Pear, 7j: Raspberry, 6; Pecan, ii; Blackberry, 3. The ultimate value of a Plant 

 Patent is debatable. With the variation within a variety, it is difficult to 

 imagine an illustration or a description, however accurate and painstaking, that 

 will identify beyond question a particular variety out of the thousands in a 

 particular species. 



Five Years of the Red Apple Club. After five years (19lt7-5l) of useful 

 service, the Red Apple Club of Ilassachusetts has been discontinued. In its place, 

 a Quality Apple Grower project is planned. This will involve all of the apples of 

 a major variety instead of a single block. Emphasis on yield, color and pest 

 control in the Red Apple Club project has helped to focus attention on three things 

 which have a direct bearing on profits in the apple business. Membership during the 

 5-year period has varied from 21 in 19^7 to U8 in 1950. In the other three years 

 it totalled 2^, 33, and 37. 



Things YJhich Count . The expression "putting first things first" finds many 

 illustrations in the fruit business. Yfe occasionally see a beginner who has a 

 mistaken notion of the value of certain practices. They may seem important, but if 

 viewed at a later date they are found to lower, instead of increase, the profits 

 of the owner. Here are 3 illustrations: (l) A grovrer may decide to burn over a 

 grassy area, little realizing that he is destroying a valuable material, vforth 

 perhaps 8 or 10 dollars per ton for mulching purposes, (2) Impressed by the povrer 

 of his new tractor and the ease with v/hich a disc harrow is pulled through the 

 orchard, the soil is disced over and over again to the extent that erosion is 

 encouraged and most of the organic matter burned up, (3) Another grower with some 

 extra labor available decides to remove the sod from around the trunks of his trees 

 but he chooses the wrong time, - the month of October, (September or November might 

 be just as bad.) The result? Exposure of the lower part of the trunk and adjacent 

 roots to cold weather in late fall sets the stage for injury. Two years later they 

 show collar rot around the base of the trvmk and an unliealthy appearance. 

 Lingering unprofitableness or loss of trees follows. 



Mixed Planting of Fruit Trees , For gardeners with enough time and ambition to 

 spray the home orchard, the "All-Purpose" Home Orchard Spray Schedule should be of 

 special interest. In previous years, a separate schedule was prepared for each of 

 the tree fruits. But today we have some new materials which are both safe and 

 effective, Ilethoxychlor, for example, may be used on both peaches and apples for 

 the control of curculio, whereas, the older material, lead arsenate, would have 

 caused severe injury to peach trees. The "All-Purpose" Schedule offers real 

 possibilities for the gardener who carries out the recommended program. 



Fruit Tree in a Lawn. (This paragraph is taken from the August, 1935 issue 

 of FRUIT NOTES. The statements are as true today as they vrere 1? years ago.) "A 

 thrifty peach tree growing without cultivation is of uncommon occurrence except 

 where the grass is clipped regularly and left lying around the tree. In fact. 



