Show o ll l 0 FRUIT FIRE BLIGHT CAN BE CONTROLLED tire blight bright of ot apples and pears pers Is also known as 8 blossom blight blight canker anker conker body blight spur blight etc ete It t not only attacks the pear and apple but jut also quince hawthorne other pome porno fruits and ond even the mountain ash ush Is a Q host to the disease This ills dIll disease ease Eue Is easily transmitted from tram any uny of or these hosts hots to any other for tor tire Ore blight Is a 0 bacterial disease Have line you jou ou noticed n a dying back of growing tips on pears and ond apples thethis the this lips dying bock back for fir several Inches turning brown find and the leaves lea hanging on That's fire tire blight An orchard orchord heavily lIy attacked will have a 0 tire Ore scorched says BUS n a writer In Successful Farming Sometimes the attack Is so severe that young oung troll fruit Is la affected becoming shriveled turning black block exuding n a milky sticky lull fluid flees Nees nail other Insects readily carry Infection from one tree to another Blossoms attacked wither and turn brown Spurs and ond branches are often infected from the blossom cluster dusler or fruit cluster An n Infected branch brunch frequently results results re re- suits In la developments e of 01 a u canker anker A canker may muy also form torm from infection Infection due Buie to a n pruning or other wound Hereit lien Here it becomes commonly known cs as body Might due to Its position In the tree When Infection Is nt ut nil all I serious death of ot the tree generally comes to pass In Inn n na n II short time Control is possible It Is possible even e with pIli pears I. I but Lut so difficult that the pear lear Industry has hus been swept out of or existence In mOD sections many by bT blight flight Apples most varieties being less ess susceptible to Injury than thun pears are ure more mOIre easily protected I 1 know of one pear orchard In California Cull Call fornia In which gangs of ot men patrol er e every week eek throughout the growing season euson carefully clipping diseased twigs far below the point of ot Injury disinfecting wound and tools after each cacti cut The Infected twigs should be removed removed removed re re- moved as os soon ns as noticed In the apple opple orchard too ton lie Ire sure to cut well be be- below below below low the point of ot blight evidence For toor a 0 disinfectant solution one une of the best Is corrosive sublimate one toone to toone toone one thousand A half and tablet of the disinfectant dissolved In Inn Ina I Ia a n pint of water will be proper Carry the solution In n a bottle with whim a u sponge which may be saturated In order to thoroughly wet the limo wound after uner etch each cut A I necked long catsup bottle makes a u handy container The Time sponge mu may buy be Ie wired In n place over O the time mouth of or the bottle One bottle may be swung from the rho belt whole It will be readily at ut hund hand another rigged up and und attached to n II pole primer pruner to touch up wounds made out of reach of the hand The work of blight eradication may maybe mayhe be he greatly facilitated by proper tools Hand Band pruning shears a u saw a longpole long longpole longpole pole l pruner n a scraper or plumbers' plumbers shave hook book find and a n good sharp sturdy knife will fill the hilt bill While cutting out blight ns os It tip tip- pears Is highly Important and ond should by no means menns be neglected neither should the Importance of ot eradicating hold over hold cankers clinkers be overlooked o |