| Show Blow Torch Enlisted in War on Fruit Pest Lansing Mich The l The state orchard and nursery Inspection department hns has adopted a new method of diseased raspberry plants The Inspectors Inspectors In In- are using a specially designed oil burning blow torch to kill the time plants Use of ot the torch has resulted from discoveries by br Michigan State college entomologists that tho the germs of such virus Irus diseases as al mosaic curl streak and wilt are carried from diseased plants to healthy stock by aphids Under Under Under Un Un- der the old method of with grub hoes It was observed that the aphids fell tell to the ground and aad migrated ed to healthy plants By fly using the tho torch to kill the plant plant before removal the state Inspectors also alAo nr are killing the Insects before they have an opportunity to migrate to healthy ill In-ill I liy 1 R ll l C C. chief of ot the Inspection In in- SIT service vice advises growers grower t tf tp have their raspberry plantations In In In- Sheeted by the state elate which employs employ trained men to do the work |
