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Leave aich samples at room temperature for ^-7 days and see if scald is beginning to 

 develop. Apples may show no scald in cold storage but 100 percent scald after a fev^r 

 days at room temperature, 



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25^000 Visitors Flock to Student Horticultural Show , A record crowd of over 25,000 

 New Englaiiders visited your University of Massachusetts campus for tiio annual student 

 horticultural show October 30-November 1, Prominent among the exhibits was a 20' x 

 10' "Then and Now" display prepared by the student Pomology Club, 



As seen in the photo, the left-hand area presented 1953 ideas of packaging 

 and display of apples, pears, grapes, and cranberries on neat salesroom shelves. 

 Built into the cinder block wall was a door suggesting refrigerated storage beyond. 

 Contrasting this on the right, 1903 provided a well-v/om cellar storage door, barrels 

 and field boxes of apples, and a small cider press. The "atmosphere" was clear at 

 a glance. Between the "Old and New" areas a revolving pyramidal table displayed 

 labeled varieties, old and new. 



Much chuckling and broad grins were noted as old timers passed by, recalling 

 memories of other days. Many spent several minutes studying this student suggestion 

 of progress, 



A, L. Fish 



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Hand-EickixLg Blossoms Aids Newly Set Strawberries; Sprays Not Effective , Experiments 

 in the U, S. Department of Agriculture have demonstrated the A/alue of removing 

 blossoms from newly set strawberry plants. Removing the blossoms allovfs the plaits 

 togrov: bigger, develop more runners, and produce more berries the following spring. 

 The experiments also proved that hand removal of blossoms is more effective than 

 destroying them with sprays. 



Scientists D, H. Scott and Paul C, Marth, geneticist and physiologist, res- 

 pectively, of the Plant Industry Station, tried various sprays in comparison vdth hand 

 picking for removing the blossoms, the last a practice long used by the more progres- 

 sive stravfberry growers. None of the sprays (2,l;-Dj 2,ii,5-TP; and TIB) was successful, 

 but hand picking seemed to stimulate the plants, 



Scott and Marth set out plants of a new, vigorous, virus-free variety (U§- 

 3919) on April 3, 1952, On May 3, when blossoming vras at its height, they sprayed 

 three different plots, hand - picked te blossoms from one plot, and left one as a 

 check. On June 11, plants on the plot from ^vhich blossoms were hand-picked were 

 much larger than any of the others, having It,i; runners each compared with practically 

 none on any of the sprayed plants or those in the check. By July 7 the hand-picked 

 plants had an average of about 20 runners each, the checks averaged 3»3jand those 

 sprayed had about one runner, or none. The removal of blossoms of newly set stravf- 

 berry plants is foxmd by these vrorkers to be one of the most important practices in 

 giving the plants a good start. They call attention also to ^research work in Ohio, 

 T/^ich showed that more runners are produced when plants are started early, and to re© 

 search in North Carolina and Ohio that shovred the early-set runners produce more 

 berries the follovang spring, 



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