4 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 1251-1275 



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 Department Bulletin No. 1253. — Diseases of Apples on the Market: 



Introduction 1 



Tabulation of data 3 



Analysis of data 5 



Box crop: Disease by years 5 



Barrel crop: Disease by years 6 



Box crop: Disease by months 7 



Barrel crop: Disease by months 9 



Box crop: Disease by varieties 10 



Barrel crop: Disease by varieties 11 



Box crop : Disease by States 12 



Barrel crop: Disease by States 13 



Box and barrel crop: Disease by inspection offices 13 



Disease by crops: Barrel and box 17 



Scald by crops 18 



Relation of rots, scald, internal breakdown, and water core to 



size and grade 22 



Freezing injury 23 



Summary 24 



Department Bulletin No. 1254. — Farm Motor Truck Operation 

 in the New England and Central Atlantic States: 



Collection of data 1 



Summary 2 



Number and location of truck owners reporting 3 



Types of farms on which trucks are owned 3 



Distance to market 4 



Size of trucks 5 



Age of trucks 7 



Are these trucks profitable investments? 7 



Advantages and disadvantages of motor trucks 7 



The best size of truck 9 



Change of markets 10 



Road hauling with trucks 11 



Road hauling for which trucks are not used 13 



Effect of different kinds of roads on use of motor trucks 14 



Hauling on the farm with trucks 15 



Custom hauling _, 16 



Annual use of trucks 16 



Cost of operation 18 



Cost of hauling with motor trucks 23 



Reliability 24 



Saving of hired help 25 



Displacement of horses 26 



Farms on which both trucks and tractors are owned 27 



Department Bulletin No. 1255. — Inheritance op Composition in 

 Fruit Through Vegetative Propagation. — Bud Variants op 

 Eureka and Lisbon Lemons: 



Introduction 1 



The problem 2 



Experimental procedure : 



Sampling 3 



Significance of determinations made 3 



Methods of analysis 4 



Results 5 



Discussion of results 14 



Variability in citrus fruits 14 



Differences in composition of fruit from the same tree and from 



trees of the same strain 14 



Differences in composition of fruit from trees of different strains. 15 



Summary 18 



Literature cited 18 



