6. Unless you are a professional salesman as well as a grower, hire yourself 

 a salesman: for the amateur cannot compete equally with the professional, 

 and the buyers of apples today are surely professionals. 



7. Guard diligently against over-filling the nearby markets, for a glut 

 ruins the price-level and the blight speeds by telegraph over land and 

 sea. Offer your apples to many cities, for apples grow only in certain 

 spots of this terrestrial ball, but all the people of all the nations 

 hunger for fruit. 



8. Strive mightily for a stable market, for therein the merchant buys 

 tomorrow's needs freely and with confidence. But when the price-cutters 

 enter, the merchant withholds buying, lest his competitor buy cheaper 



or tomorrow's fruit be lower: and the unsold apples pile up like a dammed 

 river, unto the bursting thereof. 



9. Forget not that the Eye controls the Purse Strings; that bruises are 

 repulsive and poor color looks shabby: and that your apples must sell 

 themselves in the super-markets alongside 70 other fruits and vegetables, 



10. An honest grade is a delight to all merchants and brings re-orders: but 

 a deceitful or a sloppy pack induces wrath and rejection. 



0. C. Roberts 



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POMOLOGICAL PARAGRAPHS 



External Symptoms of Boron Deficiency 



Generally there is no external evidence of boron deficiency in apples, 



however, severely affected fruits may have pebbled or very noticeable roughened 



surface particularly near the calyx end of the fruit. These symptoms were found 

 on Mcintosh, Rome and Cortland apples. 



More boron deficiency was found in fruits from young trees because of the 

 tendency of some growers to forget them when it comes to applying borax. 



Garden Tractors for Mowing 



Very little hand mowing is done in orchards today, therefore, a garden tractor 

 with a sickle-bar mower or a roadside mower might be a good investment. These 

 work very nicely around young trees and mature trees pruned to eliminate low 

 hanging limbs. However, under mature trees with low hanging limbs the mowing 

 job is a "man-killer". Also, these mowers are useful in many areas around the 

 orchard and farm buildings where mowing with a regular mowing machine or orchard 

 rotary-mower is impractical. 



One Massachusetts fruit grower likes to use his garden tractor with the 

 sickle bar mower attachment around young trees because fewer trees are sheared- 

 off than with standard mowing equipment and hand mowing is eliminated. 



