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Show points in spring. If these winter pockets can be cut out, and the wounds painted, no blight germs will be left and the disease will not spread during the spring and early summer. If a blight pocket here and there is overlooked over-looked near the blossoming time, the disease will spread from it to the flower flow-er clusters and growing twigs. The first blighted parts in the flower clusters clus-ters and new twigs put out honeylike exudations which stand in little beads ' on the young twigs, lead stems or young fruit stems. If these are cut out just after the blooming period, enormous spread of blight can be pre- , vented. It will be well to keep this point in mind this spring and cut out blight early before it spreads through the orchard. Treatment with salt, calomel, iron and other materials has been recommended recom-mended for preventing blight. None of these is of any use. The reason why salt or iron stirred into the soil under a blighting tree, or calomel' injected in-jected under its bark seems to check the blight is because the spring blight runs its course so quickly that by the time it is observed and the alleged' remedy applied, the blight Is usually-ready usually-ready to stop of its own accord. FIRE BLIGHT HURTS MANY FRUIT TREES Disease Attacks Pear as Well as Apple and Quince Pruning Prun-ing Is Only Remedy. In recent years a disease has been spreading through the apple orchards of Missouri, killing much of the newly set fruit and many of the young growing grow-ing shoots of the trees. This disease is fire blight. It attacks the pear as well as the apple and quince. It develops de-velops to a serious degree almost every ev-ery year in pears. It rarely causes as much injury in apples as it did last year. It is caused by a bacterial parasite para-site which develops in the growing layer lay-er of the tree caused by a bacterial parasite which develops in the growing layer of the tree causing the tissues to die during spring and early summer. There is no other known preventive than cutting out and burning the blighted parts, according to J. C. Whit-ten Whit-ten of the Missouri College of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. The best time to cut out blight is in late winter or early spring just before the blossoming season. It winters over mostly in pears though occasionally occasion-ally in a few apples like Jonathan and Yellow Transparent. While in June the blight shows in millions of the blighted places on the twigs, It will winter over only in a few places in the trunk, main limbs or occasionally in the twigs. In early spring these winter win-ter pockets of blight may be seen in blistered areas on the bark which give off honeylike exudations. Insects feed on these honeylike masses. These honeylike masses are full of germs of the disease which are carried by the insects to the blossoms and growing |