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1 i Such a record can be drawn off on a Mayfield, Clinton, and Hickman still br
V i card board with other columns being have sufficient live buds to produce to
1 A added for each picking date, etc. a crop this year. Unofficial reports of
l , This record will mean more to the indicate a few crops remain in East- gr
~ , farm where it is obtained than any ern Kentucky around Paintsville,
 ‘ other place. However, We plan to Pikeville, and Flemingsburg. tr
._ 6~S$6I11bi€ ih€$€ i`€€0i`d$ ii`0¤1 the Even the most hardy varieties to ln
. various counties and Diibiisii iiié i`¢· winter injury at the Experiment Sta- th
sults in Kentucky Fruit News- tion in-cinnu in Lexington una all rn
, I Diiiii te Visit 85 many ef these blossoms killed. This includes the ln
~ field denienstwiien plots as nessilile Canadian varieties, iinlelntven, sentn Ol
, `· during harvest, and the county agents Haven, Belle of Georgia. Hardee, 0]
V pledge their support in making obser— Polly, July Heath, Carman, etc. The hg
h  . Vations during harvest and assisting official temperatures reported by the U
` ° , the growers in keeping their picking Lexington U. S, Weather Bureau were In
~   H records. as follows-January 6, 4 below zero; lil
, 2 January 18, -3; January 19, ——12; yl
i   · WINTER INJURED PEACH January 23, -3; January 24, -7. {I
1   TREES PRUNING The snow which fell at Christmas
f ,`   SUGGESTIONS together with the additional snow
‘ E I The sub zero temprature of Jan- kept the ground completely covered
 , I uary killed the 1940 peach crop several inches deep until after Feb- H
    _ throughout Kentucky with the excep- ruary 10. At Lexington records from y
‘ _. tion of the Paducah district. Most Maximum-Minimum Tliermometer in 0
_ peach orchards around Paducah, the Station orchard showed the tem· yl
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