Show ORCHARDS R LAID IN WASTE California I Suffers CI Loss Deadly I Pear h hl From Flom accounts account of the time havoc that tha t time the pear peal blight Is working working- among tIm the e trees of California It is likely that Utah markets ets will be obliged ed to depend de tie- e- e pend nd upon tho time product of or Utah Ulan and amid Idaho for their supplies of oC the time fruit this Ibis year It Is said that thai one ono of the most destructive blights that ever affected af aC- af- af California fruit now has Imas the pear crop In lii Its grip nn and t that lat unless steps steTs are aio taken lo to stop It tho the entire will he lie pd Ih Ilio t t will suffer surrel a n loss loss loss- or of revenues cv- cv to to th the tho amount of or A meeting was 1101 held 1 at ot Sacramento Thursday day to lo discuss the matter maller and it was isas attended by horticulturists front from all parts pacts of the tho state It Is understood understood un un- that the blight Is caused by bacteria and that the tho tree treo Is inoculated lall by the time hud The Tho germ Is la usually carried by bees hees which suck tho he honC homiC honey hon hon- C ey anI and leave the germ Jerm which they have encountered In iii a 0 diseased bud burl The work of or destruction lesti starts at nt once The rue germs gelms cat down to lo tho the bark orth of or th the he tree and amid the he the tIme tree the faster Caster the Iho work of 1 As the cat eat Into tho time tree the branches behind them die until the he whole treo tree Is dead No hope I Is f umu h for a n. tree treo which the genus conns havo have once attacked unless the he dl diseased cmel ar arc arc- at once cut off and burned The Th blight spreads very rapidly and a I whole orchard ma may become Inoculated ed from u IL single lc tree In iii short order Large orchards of death dead pear trees are standing through tIme the state stale bearIng bear bear- In big Ing witness to the tho deadly powers of oC the g germ 4 |