heavy frost at the start of the bloom period, Tennessean had A HDS
greater number of buds killed than Blakemore, though Blakemiyrc hm`
had more blossoms open at the time. du;}
.{ Armore, a new variety from Missouri, was low in yie1d,be- Fw
* ing below Aroma. on
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. Sioux, a new variety from the West, made the poorest row 6;]
i of plants (in a favorable growing season), the poorest yield, and bvll
the berries were long and soft. lt is definitely not adapted to
western Kentucky conditions.
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Tennessee 866, a variety not listed above, made a yield of pv?
132 crates per acre, the highest yield of all in 1951. This isasoft Z5-
; berry, adapted only to home use, local sales, and processing whi
For the last three years, it has led all varieties in production at Th¢
Princeton, and size is good. Plants are not on the market yet but frol
it is interesting because of its high yield, good size, and unusual trol
quality.
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Cold-Storage Plants Compared with Fresh-Dug Plants; lil;
Strawlyggg-r- plants of Blakemore, Tennessee Beauty, and Ten-
` nessee Shipper dug in early winter and placed in cold storage
were set in plots in early spring along with plots set to fresh dug
- plants, with four replications of each. The cold-storage plants
of Blakemore and Tennessee Beauty outyielded the fresh-dug
` plants by 9 crates and l4 crates per acre respectively; but fresh-
dug Tennessee Shipper plants outyielded the cold—storage plants DD
by 4 crates per acre. These results show that properly handled Pa
cold—storage plants are as satisfactory as fresh-dug plants. Dig- E1)
V ging plants in early winter is an important means of avoiding Cll
crown borer, which begins to infest plants in March. Use of
storage plants is also an aid to growers in getting their planting
done early in the spring. T-
PEACH TREE BORER CONTROL WITH SPRAYS CC
J. G. Rodriguez and W. D. Armstrong pa
Control of the peach tree borer is practicable in commer—  
cial peach orchards by appropriate spraying of the tree trunks in mh
summer. This type of application provides a safe and speedy iht
method of control and many growers have adopted the method lm
entirely. fm
~ BQCBUSE 3. population 0f peach tree borer has such a wide  
variation in size, or developmental stages, and because emerge¤€€
extends apparently from late June or early July, through Septem-
ber in the latitude of Western Kentucky, it was deemed important —
to investigate the effectiveness of a control program utilizing two Su
or three spray applications at about monthly intervals. AD €X ‘ ac
1 periment to study this point was conducted at the Western Sliatf?
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