'= get by with one fastener. Bands has reached optimum maturity helps ‘
’ should fit tightly all the way to obtain the full benefit from in-
around. This means several tacks creasing size and quahtyw as the
or staples to snug the band into »fruit develops t0 maturity.
depressions in the trunk.
. Growers will be amazed it tge
number of worms caug t in an s. t 4 Y ··
Sometimes as many as 1,000 or HINIS AND OBSERVATIONS
more worms will be found in a BV W_ W_ MAGILL , -
single band. Even 10 or 15 worms ” V _
per band is well worth while when Peaches were in full bloom m tht-
caught in the early season, since Experiment Station Orchard at Lex-
each worm destroyed then greatly ington, on April 4, in 1944. Apples
reduces the number of second and were showing tight bloom_clusters
third-brood worms. on Red Delicious. That night tht- -
temperature reached 16 degrees, a<·· gy
1; cording to a maximum-piinimum d
LET TRANSPARENT APPLES %l?§;.“"£€"&?§;` t’£3S§;“iii12igti.’*;;i§».€2 3
MATURE BEFORE HARVEST felé sevdrall times ;lui}ng the niglht u
R- V· LOTT giiouiiel   1if21xi¤iiilof)niiiIgi)\\\\fenhaffi a
University of Illinois a good crop of all varieities of E
caches, a les, cherries an ums. ~
"Satisfactory prices will probably p This 8.5.pOf 1945 wchcg vim in ?,
prevail throughout the Transparent hl] y ` . .' p °. ` ,.  
. 1 bloom on Mareh 26. apples xxeit
harvest Season TO Obtain thc in full bloom on April 5 That night
gggiggit Sliiggi? £1i?§&_ lzie Cgggit Ugg the temperature went to 22 degrees.
reach optimum maturity before I)tca;;.;;Sd§;g1;g1.g;§h‘:W'ggY`   . 1
harvest. The rapid increase in size gm now pwctimfllv n` awipc Om ·· ` \
andtqualitylas the fruit nears ma- ’ ' (
uriy greaty increases yield and . . . .. · - t
V consumer acceptance. Investigations A Good Yen to Make Obhcmdtmm {
by the Horticulture Department Many Kentucky peach growers `
have shown that as Transparcnts in- found their orchards in full bloom I
creased from 2 to 214-inches in with no dormant spray applied. due 1
diameter the weight increased 35 to the early spring and abundance i .
percent, sugar content increased 15 of rain anel mud. Some growers. - .
P€I`C€¤t, and acidity decreased 5 realizing they had a heavy carl`? ‘
percent. Fruits 2% inches in over of scale. went ahead and ap- `
dliiméter had 55 percent greater plied an _o1l spray, feeling the USR ·
weight, 22 percent more sugar, and Of $6810 1¤.l¤¥`}' WM U srcatct mk
15 percent less acid than 2-inch than possible danger from oil spray.
{TURB- The 2*:-inch fruits had 85 We will all watch the results with _
percent greater weight. 25 percent SFQN ml€i`€$l·
more sugar and 20 percent less acid
than the immature 2-inch fruits. Apple Scab vs. Mud
Emily. plcking Of Small i¤¤¤--aw-‘¤ With ideal weather in the pihli
gmt bs Obgmusly domiat great Sacrb bud condition for apple scab dc-
CE O yled and quality velopment, some growers found it ’
_ One result of the shortage oI1abor impossible to drive a spray outfit
in 1943 was that a very significant through their orchards, because of
part of the crop reached proper ma- eight inches of mud. One grower
turity before harvest. Some grow- I visited bought 200 feet of spray
ers waited until the fruits were hose and connected it onto his old
m3lZuI`€ before beginning harvest 60-ft_ hose to make a semi—StatiO¤iN`§' E
and _ obtained a 1arge—size, high sprayer out of his portable sprayer.
quality product. The use of hormone He got the job of controlling apple
sprays to hold the fruit on until it scab done. .
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