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From the time berries begin to turn color until late in the auirnner they are 

 subject to attack by blueberry maggot and Japanese beetle. Blueberry maggot is a 

 serious pest in northern blueberry growing areas in both wild lowbush and culti- 

 vated highbush varieties. Japanese beetles feed on the leaves and ripe fruit of 

 blueberries and, in many areas where they are abundant, have become the number 

 one insect pest encountered by the grower. 



Excellent control of maggots is obtainable with malathion alone or with a 

 protein-hydrolysate plus malathion bait spray, but only temporary relief from 

 Japanese beetles is obtained with malathion. During the 1961 season Sevin 

 (1 naphthyl N-methylcarbaraate) was approved for use on blueberries with a toler- 

 ance of 10 ppm, with no wait required between application and harvest when applied 

 at the rate of up to 1.5 pounds actual Seven per acre. This insecticide has given 

 outstanding control of Japanese beetles and also performs very satisfactorily 

 against blueberry maggot, therefore in those areas where Japanese beetles are a 

 problem, its use is suggested for maggot and beetle control during the picking 

 season. 



Careful attention to the control of the insects as outlined will insure 

 ample picking for the birds, and with some luck there may be some left for the 

 grower . 



William E. Tomlinson, Jr. 



Research Professor 

 Cranberry Station 



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ELECTRONIC FARM ACCOUNTS 



One of the problems of a managed farm has been that of keeping records. On 

 many farms these are very sketchy due sometimes to the sheer hard work involved 

 and the number of entries needed and the tedious job of adding and subtracting. 

 The Northeastern States Cooperative Extension services have developed a plan to 

 make it possible to use an electronic digital computor to do most of the work. 



All the farm manager needs to do is to list his income and expense items on 

 a form provided by the system and mail them each week to the Extension Farm 

 Management Specialist. Monthly summaries are printed by the computor and returned 

 about the 20th of each month. 



The system is very flexible and provides for almost any classification of 

 income and expense that a dairy, fruit, potato, vegetable or poultry farmer might 

 want. In addition, accounts are kept of social security taxes, his weeks or 

 months of labor, amounts of feed, fertilizers, spray material, capital items such 

 as tractors and trucks as well as home accounts and credit account balances such 

 as notes, mortgages and trade accounts. 



The system has been used on a trial basis for a year on many different sizes 

 and kinds of farms and has worked very well. The time needed to write out the 

 information for the computor on most forms is only a few minutes per week. 



