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In severe cases the affected leaves fall and weaken the fruit clusters. Usually 

 the leaves lose their green color before they drop. There also appears to be a 

 possibility that Captan applied just before or during bloom may decrease the set of 

 fruit* 



"The variety most generally affected is Delicious, 

 jury are Baldwin, Stayman, Paragon, and Vifinesap, 



Other varieties showin?^ in- 



" There is a wide variation between different orchards in the amount of injury 

 for no apparent reason as far as number of applications, method of application, tree 

 vigor, weather conditions, and other facto|»e are concerned. An attempt is being 

 made to determine the cause of the injury, particularly iii those orchards where it 

 is most severe. In the meantime, for orchards where there is a noticeable amount 

 of injury it is suggested that the use of Captan be discontinued until more is 

 known about the material, and the conditions under which it may cause injury to the 

 fruit or foliage," 



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Similar injury to that found in New Jersey has been observed in Massachusetts 

 orchards. Also, a similar type of injury was observed on Cortland in a New Hampshire 

 orchard which had not been sprayed with Captan but had been sprayed with Puratized, 



liYhile any amount of injury is undesirable, that caused by Captan appears to be 

 less harmful than that caused by liquid lime sulfur. 



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The Guesstimate of the apple crop made at a recent meeting of the National 

 Apple Institute at Roanoke, Virginia is as follows; 



19^1 



FinalUSDA 



1952 



FinaTUSDA 



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1953 

 Guesstimate 



Massachusetts 

 New Hampshire 

 Maine 

 Vermont 

 Connecticut 

 Rhode Island 

 New York 

 Virginia 

 Pennsylvania 

 Y/est Virginia 

 Washington 

 Oregon 



TOTAL U. S. 

 (35 States) 



3,516,000 



988,000 



1,15U,000 



1,080,000 



1,568,000 



2li3,000 



18,095,000 



10,06U,000 



8,200,000 



3,780,000 



20,03i|,000 



2.2142,000 



112,935,000 



1,22U,000 



U7U,ooo 



700,000 

 61^3,000 

 973,000 

 102,000 

 11,395,000 



9,9^8,999 

 ii,9lii,000 

 3,770,000 

 22,630,000 

 2,700,000 



92,696,000 



3,100,000 

 875,000 



950,000 



700,000 



1,500,000 



200,000 



12,700,000 



7,775,000 



5,500,000 



3,1400,000 



25,2i;3,006 



2,750,000 



97,915,000 



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During the last six years the production of frozen concentrate citrus juice 

 has increased from 2,000,000 gallons to 55,000,000 gallons a year. 



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