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Show PEAR BLIGHT -AND HOW TO PREVENT IT State Board of Horticulture Issues a Bulletin Dealing With. Important Im-portant Subjects. The Utah State Board of Horticulture has just issued Its ninth annual bulletin, bulle-tin, copies of which will. be sent free of charge to any address upon application to the secretary, Joseph Hyrum Parry, or any member of the Board. One o the main features of this bulletin is an extended article on the "Cause and Prevention Pre-vention of Pear Blight," which is in part as follows: Thero Is probably no disease of fruit trees so thoroughly destructive as pear blight, or fire blight, as it is very aptly called, which attacks pears, apples, quinces and other pomaceous fruits. It has such a hold in some sections of this State as to seriously menace the pear growing industry. Whole orchards, many of large extent, have been en- ' tirely destroyed by this insidious disease, dis-ease, and unless prompt, united and persistent measures are taken to eradicate eradi-cate this contagion, it will entail untold un-told loss. Fire blight is to the orchard tree what smallpox or cholera is to tht! human impedes, being fully as contagious conta-gious and deadly, hence the need of careful handling and prompt measures to extirpate this disease from the orchards or-chards of the State. The situation Is made more serious by the recent discovery of this same disease in apricot trees In Brlgham City orchards, where its deadly effects were more rapid in developing than in the pear or quince trees, the trees succumbing succumb-ing very quickly after the first appearance, appear-ance, of the malady. Pear blight is a highly contagious bacterial disease of the pear and allied fruit trees. It attacks and rapidly kills the blossoms, young fruits, and new twig growth, and runs down in the living liv-ing bark to the larger limbs, and thence to tho trunk. While the bacteria, themselves them-selves rarely kill the leaves, all the foliage foli-age one the blighted branches must, o course, eventually die. Blight first appears in spring on tho blossoms. About the tlme'the tree Is going out of blossom, certain flower clusters turn blaok and dry up as if killed by frost. This blighting of blossoms, blos-soms, or blossom blight, as it is called, Is one of the most serious features of pear blight. One of the most remarkable remark-able things about this disease is the rapidity with which it spreads through an orchai'd at blooming time. The greater part of the damage from blight occurs the month or two following follow-ing blossom time, but twig blight may be prevalent at any time through the summer, when new growth is coming out. In certain cases the blight keeps up a sort of slow battle with the tree through the summer, ao that at the close of the season, when the tree goes Into a dormant condition, active blight is still at work In it, and continues all through the winten It would be well to look the trees over several times during the winter to be certain that the blight is completely exterminated. ex-terminated. In order lo do the inspecting inspect-ing thoroughly It is necessary to go from tree to tree down the row, or In caso of large trees to walk up one sido of the row and down tho other, as in pimply. jy-iMns tiiroufiU tiio orchard It Is impossible to be certain that every case of blight has been cut out. Cutting out the blight may be done at any time in the winter or spring up to the period when the growth begins. The best time, however, is undoubtedly In tho fall, when the foliage Is still on the trees and the contrast between that on the blighted and that on the healthy limbs is so great that it is an easy matter mat-ter to find all the blight. A careful Inspection of all pomaceous treees should be made two or three times during the summer and a sharp lookout kept for the first appearance of the blight. It usually takes two or three years for the disease in an orchard or-chard to develop Into a serious epidemic but the early removal of the first cases will prevent this and save a great deal of labor later and many valuable trees. Call on Vansant &. Chamberlain at their new store, 61 and 53 So. Main, aftor March lst and select a fine piano or organ. All new stock; terms to suit your purse. |