Show I r Blighted Trees Should I Be Treated in Winter Vintel Blight Is a bacterial disease di ea e caused h by ha a n bacterium growing In the inner hark It girdles the twigs twig so that the top has to tn die and aud the leaves appear I as m though scorched with fire the The only remedy Is to keep the tree Uce as thrIft thrifty as us possible hut but not growing too fast fust It is to customary sow oats outs or barley barle between the lime trees In June so son n ae at to assist In ripening the apple wood woodIn In the fall This checks the growth of time the blight Some Sonic varieties or of of ap I pies blight more than others In the tine winter time throne all nil blighted wood should be cut off and burned and then the time t trees ees looked over o for cankers These are Ule places along ulong the trunk and larger limbs where the disease Is working From these places the germs come out next Turing spring to spread to other trees These may be cut out and sterilized with willi corrosive sublimate or formaldehyde |