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REDUCING STORAGE ROTS OF APPLES 



Even mth the most careful operation in the oi'Chard, in the packin^^: shed, and 

 in the storage, it is not possible to eliminate storage rot completelyo 



It can be reduced considerably, horrever, by observing a few sensible practices, 



(1) Avoid fruit injury, llany rots start at stem punctures or at bruises o 



(2) Use clean boxes if possible because they are lees likely to carry a 

 heavy load of rot-producing spores. This applies only to boxes of 

 thoroughly dried lumber vjhich have been stored dry. 



(3) Sterilize old boxes to kill rot spores that are on or ixi theno There 

 are tvfo effective methods; (a) Exposure for 2 minutesto live steam. 

 This Tdll kill blue mold spores which are responsible for most of the 

 storage rot, and (b) spraying ;dth a solution of sodium hypochlorite. 

 The solution should contain at least CU/? available chlorine. Hold 

 boxes for few days in a closed room. This operation could be done 

 in the storage or packing room and walls, floor and ceiling could be 

 washed dovm and sterilized at the sane time that the boxes are sprayed, 



— C,J»Gilgut 



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OONTROIJLINS FLIES 



Roadside stand and cider press operators — and their customers « often are 

 bothered by the large numbers of flies attracted to the spots Here are seme sugges- 

 tions made to help you « the stand or press operator - keep fly numbers dovm and make 

 your place of business more attractive 



Several kinds of flies may be troublesome and if you operate at night many of 

 the night-flying moths and other insects aie a distinct nuisance. The common house- 

 fly is one of the vmrst offenders around the roadside stand. Occasionally the blovr- 

 flies - the so-called blue bottles and green bottles - are sometimes troublesome and 

 then there are the tiny fruit flies, Drosophila, of tremendous importance in soienti- 

 fic studies of genetics but a doggone pest wherever there is ripening fruit, spoiled 

 fruit or vegetables and fruit juices. 



If you operate at night, why not use some of the special yello^^ bul^s in and 

 around your staid? They vron't keep all the night-flj-lng insects away but fewer of 

 them are attracted to the yellcnr bulbs. If you have some lights at a considerable 

 distance from the actual building, use ordinary bulbs there and the yellow bulbs in 

 and immediately around the building 



The control of the ordinary housefly and the little fruit or vinegar fly, 

 Drosophila, may be outlined in three steps - each supplements the other, 



1, Glean up and keep cleaned up; Flies are not attracted to places where 

 there is nothing to feed on or to breed in. Perhaps you can multiply 

 in your head, but flies have to hav-e a place to lay eggs so that vihen 

 the eggs hatch their young, the maggots, can feed and grov; up ready 

 to change into pupae and then into flies like their parents, >;hen 

 you provide flies v/ith the right kind of food, and temperatures are 

 high, they can multiply mighlyfast. 



All refuse should be removed daily and either buried, burned, fed out 

 or carried far aisray. Every other day or twice a vreek or once a week 



