POMOLOGICAL PARAGRAPH 

 Northwest Fruit Industry 



At the 68th Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Horticultural 

 Society, Dr. L. P. Batjer, U.S.D.A., Wenatchee, Washington, stated 

 "the newest development in the Northwest fruit industry is the real- 

 ization that we have too many apple trees". A tree census conducted 

 in 1961 revealed that Washington has 5.1 million apple trees which rep- 

 resents a 66 per cent increase over the number of trees in 1949. Of 

 these, 71 per cent of the Red Delicious trees and 87 per cent of the 

 Golden Delicious trees are under 10 years old. 



The average apple crop in Washington for the past ten years was 

 21 million boxes. Batjer estimates that within 5 to 10 years an aver- 

 age crop will be 34 million boxes, a 65 per cent increase. 



-- William J. Lord 

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PROF. JOHN S. BAILEY RETIRES 



Professor John S. Bailey, Associate Professor of Research, Depart- 

 ment of Horticultural Science, retires on June 30, after 41 years of 

 service to the University and the fruit growers. 



Born in East Aurora, New York, he was raised in Lakewood, Ohio. 

 He received his B.S. in 1922 from Michigan State College and qn M.S. 

 from lowas State College in 1923. Prof. Bailey did further graduate 

 study at Cornell University from 1926-1927. 



Prof. Bailey joined the staff of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege at Amherst in 1923 as an Investigator in Pomology. He was advanced 

 to Assistant Professor in 1926 and to Associate Professor in 1952. 



Between the years of 1952 and 1958, he was headquartered at the 

 Cranberry Field Station at Wareham, Massachusetts, where he conducted 

 research on strawberries, blueberries and beach plums. During the sum- 

 mer of 1957, he took a 6 months sabbatical and made a special study of 

 small fruit growing on the west coast from Southern California to Brit- 

 ish Columbia, Canada. 



His intensive study of the inheritance of certain fruit and foliage 

 characters in peach trees from 1924 to 1949 led to the start of a chrom- 

 osome map for peaches. Later he became well ]<nown for his research with 

 small fruit. He has published research on the propagation, nutrition 

 and pruning of cultivated blueberries, and winter hardiness of raspberries. 

 His research results were instrumental in obtaining grower acceptance of 

 virus-free strawberry plants, soil fumigation for strawberries and chem- 

 ical weed control in small fruits. Prof. Bailey has published over 50 

 papers in technical journals and Extension Service Publications. 



He holds membership in the American Society for Horticultural Science, 

 Alpha Zeta and Sigma Xi. 



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