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the average, o/ strawberries in Massachusetts has c'eclined conGiderrbly. 

 Thip is due, in part, Lo strawberry virus which results in poor plant 

 development anc. a disappointing yield. 



Eal'.win Aroma . Do you rejiemher the cjll-'.r Baldwin de-1 at about this tiue of t.ie ^^ear 

 ill the old days? It was just about now that this common stored fruit was coraiain^ onto 

 the market. Quite frequently you would bear the rem.".rk that Co-and-So "Wouldn't 

 open his cellar until the first of March." Then the apples would come in — nice 

 ripe stuff — just ready to eat, and considered to have kept wonderfully in tliose 

 times, but of course not so well as now tinder artificial refrigeration. 



It all brings to mind some of those grand old-timers — Clarence Jclrson, 

 Bill I'oods, Artie Simpson, Chai'lie Bleiler, Al Hunt, Ned Morrison, Henry Stevens, an<; 

 Charlie Lowell. It's risky mentioning names because there is always a chance of 

 oraittins someone, but I am just mentioning a fev7 with whom I was especially vrell 

 acquainted in the early 20' s, and who are so close to the local apple deal. 



IJe must admit scientific refrigeration has done much to improve apple 

 marketing, but it has taken away the glamour of sprinjtime apple packing out of 

 common cold storage and cellars. Science cannot duplicate that deiijitful and ap- 

 petizing aroma that we used to get from a barrel of comj.ion stored Baldwins. 



U.E. Piper 



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CASH RECEIPTS TOR MilSS. FPCM PRODUCTS IN 1952 



Total 0202,615 - S.7% 100. Of. 



It will be noted that cranberries ranlc 6th, and other fruits 8th, 

 among farm products. (From Bureaii of Agricultural Economics Report) 



Publication approved by George J. Cronin, State Purchasing Agent 



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