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loot* chicory, the fertilizin of truck crops in itl rn IIIiu tl fertilizing of twenty five kinds of vegetables in the i n belt, t) heritance of kernel arrangement in sweel corn, the d( lopi f tv. now wilt-resistani varieties of greenhous< tomat( ind various phases of the production of roses, trnations and ther flori 1 crops under glass. In the field of marketing, horticultural publi the ( liege include bulletins or circulars dealing with marketing the i n lonf adin tnd packing Illinois peachy an < hausth mart ting ( ilhoun county apples. studi< £ factors affectii the k< Jit fruit during shipment tnd observations on tin* i frigeration o:' fruit in transit. The circulars rading and packing ] i h were issued shortly < before the harvest < the two largest crops of p hes Illinois has ever produced and were (^ distinct help to the growers in pn iring their fruit r market. 1 [lowing the publication of the bulletin on marketing I tlhoun county appl . much imp: vement was n le in the handlin the apple crop in that county along th< lines sugg d as a result oi the study. R < irch work which ha progre 1 far enough to giv< ite r nits but which has not yet been published in bullet i t rm includes he d< ' pment of 34 potential new vari f a rid 15 o t !H an exhaustive study f rneth* of fertilizing sw< : corn grown the ( nnery and methods of fertili ing \ ri< > vei: ibh in the c !hicag< • ar t. Other lin f work in pn re include the breedin raspl ri( nd with view to developing hi ydeldin variet - rent to di studies I distribut n < uit trees un ler litt 1 litions in relal > to ultu d pi ict n id U r > and meth( n f pruning apple and | h I v ai the m t (1- irable form < w th d ; b n v pr luction I fruit fuln s li( n thinni f ] hi i\ e c th* limil f th >< tion I the indusl p i w hol< t I w ? ; is | to thin lively i i h Ion

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