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Show PEAR BLIGHT Treated of in Bulletin SH Just Issued. JM H Niels R. Itioby, or Wellsvllle, and f Peter Sthland of Providence, county tJI tree Inspectois under the direction of $j the county Roaid of Horticulture aro 'J now out hi the county doing their lil work. "Pear-blight" seems to bo tho IH difficulty that must be remedied, and the following extracts from a bulle- ll ton Just Issued from the A. C. of U. i'H cxpcilmcnt station may piovc of In- ll The commonest and most apparent 'H feature of blight Is tho sudden dying ! of the foliage on twigs and branches, '1 Just as If It hud been burned by (Iro. This blackening of the foliage as it JH by lire has caused thls-dlscase-to be - fl known sometimes as tire blight. If l the bulk of the diseased twigs or H branches be examined It will bo seen il to be blackened and dried. Tills dead IH appearance of the hark Is often so ' evident that it will bo noticed even IH before the blackened leaves. il "Again, a small twig may be dead and the disease extended fiom It sons to girdle a large limb on which It Is M situated, while above and below tho ,1 twig may be fresh and giecn. H "If remedial measuiesurcnot taken, 'il the second season usually finishes H what is left of tho tree. M "An Insect having visited the exu- jM date from blighted limbs will innocu- H late every twig and Mower It lights M "Remedy The only real preven- ' Hon Is tho removal ol the cause of the H disease. Theio can be no blight If IH tlie blight vacllll do not come In con- H tact with the tree.The only means 1 seems to bo to cut off and burn the diseased parts and so stop the spread H of the germs.In cutting off the blighted limbs the cut should be made 11 three or four Inches below the lowest fH signs of the llsease."To fight the 11 disease successfully, not a single ills- 'J cased twig or branch should bo left; ''1 and If the tree Is to for gone to be i saved It should be dugout and burn- H Those who arc Inteiested should j send to the Experiment Station for i liullctln No. 85. It deals w Ith the ',H hlstoiy of the disease, Its appearance, H spiead, kinds of trees attacked, leme- dies, couliol, etc., and such other ; matters as bear on the subject. '1 |