Show EARLY APPLE PICKING URGED f TO SAVE CROP Expert Says This Method Will Vill Prevent Water Core of Jonathans How Utah apple growers par par- particularly particularly particularly those with Jonathan apple ap- ap apple ap apple orchards can reduce or en- en entirely entirely en entirely eliminate water core coro and browning from their crops Is dis- dis dis-cu dis ls- ls cu sod led by T IL II IJ assistant Of r the Utah Agri Agricultural cultural l college In to a special letter which has Just been issued This Is shown n by a 0 dry brown or blackened mass of punk known as IlS Internal break break- breakdown breakdown breakdown down or Internal browning he explains The expo expert writes p II Apparently also associated with It It- It at least sometimes In the same lot of at apples I It not In la the same alme apple Is water core The two troubles may be easily confused They aro apparently brought About by practically the tho same conditions and yield to similar treatment hence In this discus discussion sion sian will be will bo el cussed classed together as water core coro because that Is a amore amore more familiar term term FOUND SERIOUS IL HANDICAP IL P DIC Water coro In Utah grown Jonathan Jonathans Is a a serious handicap to the marketing of ot the crop 1 shipments of ot water cored fruit h have ve been boen condemned and the tho orchards orchard producing them have received a commercial black blackeye blackeye blackeye eye l Furthermore apples show show- showIng showing ing log visible water core will not be permitted to pass the fhe he U S grades rades Similar but less lees trouble has been experienced with De Dc De- De DeI Delicious I licious Winesap and Spitzenburg Although Allbough local cases have not come to the Iho attention I or of the writer this trouble Is le found in other states with Grimes Golden Golden Gold- Gold Golden en In Utah the Jonathan Is chieff chIef r offender I Investigators In the northwest advance the theory that the trou trou- trouble trou- trou trouble I ble Me arises from tram the fact tact that when apples ripen In warm sea wea weather ther certain chemical byproducts are formed within the fruit at II a taster faster rate than the respiration or breathing of or the apple can dispose of at them hence the death and discoloration of ot some of or the apple tissues Other theories are advanced ad for tor the tho causes of or these troubles but the above e theory and the suggested remedy better tits fits Utah conditions The Tho vital point In the above aboe theory as It applies to Utah Jonathans Jonathan Is that many of ot them do ripen In rather warm weather This is especIally true this season VERY SIMPLE The very simple remedy Is to 1 pick lck the apples before this condl tinos Unos starts This has been very generally found to bo the most successful method of at avoiding the trouble It has been a a common practice In Utah to leave the ap- ap apples ap apples ples pIes on on the tree treo until they attain a high color This practice Is 1 not objectionable It t fruit will go Into Immediate consumption How lIow- However However ever when this fruit Is stored blackened mass of at have favored the beginning or of water ater core the tissues begin to turn brown one month later For storage dark color must be sacrificed for tor or keeping quality Just what orchard conditions and treatments favor water core coro be difficult to say lay la In brief It seems t to be bo any condition which favors early ripening It Is often orten found In orchards on dry gravelly benches where water is 19 Insufficient dent where trees make a 0 small sparse growth and where whore soil salt Is poor Some relief reller has hal been found Jy by summer applications of or ni- ni nitrogen nitrogen ni nitrogen trogen fertilizers Increasing the fertility of ot the tho soil soli and the tho wa- wa water water wa water ter supply and more pruning would likely help In some Utah orchards In others probably the only practical remedy Is to J pick lck the fruit early I IV IX WEBER EDEn 1 It It Is probably 00 o Interest toV tou to V u- u record ord that the Utah agricultural experiment station has begun some studies of apples In Cacho Box Dox Elder and Weber counties for tor the purpose or of work work- ing ing out accurate picking Indexes S I described above in relation to Internal browning and ana water Core Tests core Tests Testa are made ev every y week and samples of or apples placed In cold storage to determine amount of water core and browning Teats Testa ma mage made e on September 7 and S 8 show that Jonathans In Box Dox Elder and Weber counties ore I fast ast approaching the Ideal pick pIck- pIckIng pickIng picking ing stage as to color pressure and separation from the spur accord accord- accordI according I ing to the standards suggested by byI bytho I th the federal Investigators It must not be bo forgotten that the Ibe 1926 season Is an especially early one It U water core Is to be avoided a I this year the picking ot or Jonathan and Delicious must begin very ery I soon I 1 I Is la highly desirable for tor tori fori i those host growers who have havo had this I 1 trouble In the past to make every 1 effort to harvest these varieties It if for or storage at an earlier stage Blago J I than has been their custom The Tho extremely warm weather coupled with an early season points to a great prevalence ot of this thus trouble |