Show the cause of pear blight for f j pars I 1 have grown pear pears toe for market and have airbed and stud lei 1 the almost dall during thai that time ani ant I 1 cannot agree with expert meat etaylor men and others as a to the lie cause of atar blight I 1 cannot hileve par pear blight I 1 Is caud by bacteria or that a microbe baa has any thing ig to do with it t an experiment station lit atlon professor writha in country life in america recently went so go far xe as to any ay that the par blight microbe lot 1 in n the nectar of the pear blossoms and ie Is carried carril 1 by bee bees from lower flower to flower floer I 1 think it in 1 hardly possible for the nectar to t L Finy thing but pure when the blossoms open I 1 think pear ie Is caused by conditions of eoll oil and climate on certain sv and deletions de lations eien in illinois Illi pe trees are fre frea tram from blight l rank AMID illinois tho the muse cause of pear blight I 1 Is now very well known there ie Is no ques ion tion at all of its being a germ disease microscope hae has revealed its it char acter and it hae has been isolated and ex the spore of the fungus thai that baures pear blight is both heavy and sticky and cannot be ile blown by the wind mind from one place to another it used to be supposed that it could be blown bon from one tree to another and hat that this would mould account for the sud den appearance of pear blight after a windy and wet period the germ term ol 01 pear blight hies iles over wlater in tto tte live wood drad dad wood that has been ben hilled by insects bees sip alp the gap from wound wounds in infected tree trees and later visit the tips of treen trees where small leave leaves are being formed or blossoms are opening the spores of the pear blight stick to the limbs of the insects just as pollen ticks to them when the insects suck the nectar in the flowers the spores arc are rubbed off and fall into the flower from those spores plants of a thread like character develop plants grow through the sap wood and through the leaves and use up the life fluid that should so go to feed the leaves ahe leaves then wilt and turn color and wo we eay say the tree has been blighted there is much et to be learned about pear blight but the foundation has been nell liell out farmers he ite view fruit exhibit at pain fairs societies having the control of the fruit exhibit at t taira fairs should see to it that so far as an possible every variety of fruit grown in the state shall be at each exhibition mat ila agers of agricultural societies should remember that these exhibitions are tor for the purpose and for ho stimulation of fruit growing they ye are not mere more rambling ga devices by which A it few men can make aa a much nion mone as possible blo out of tho the premi pre MI urns many of our exhibits are den deti dent in the number of varieties dis played certain are in kited in and these generally make a display of the fruit they grow themselves gome some of the varieties that are thriving best in the elate state are not shown at all the managers of the exhibit eibi bli could by a very little work bring in all the different varieties of fruit being grown in the locality represented by tho the fair this should be done oven if it the management has to buy a fow tow plates of good fruit of va that would not oliv fwise be represented tho the matter ot of instruct tiou should be made much ot and every variety should be fully designated by lettered or printed labels that are large enough to be read by alt all very ver y frequently tho the labels on the fru fruits it is are very badly written on lips slips 0 paper and are placed where they dily are weighed down by the fruit thi this may be satisfactory to the judges but would hardly do much in instructing the public orchard cover crop at this season of the ear a cover ard may be put into the orchard that has been cultivated especially it if this orchard ie Is in tho the north experiments 3 with RIM rover cover crop show that they vry tery materially reduce the distance hat that the front enters the ground in some cages cases tho zommor vetch has been planted in the orchard in mid summer and haj bas made a good growth luring during the full all covering tho the orchard with mith a carpet of green this plant freezes during the winter inter but the carpet it reduces the power of the frost to p the ground grounds in one iest in wisconsin where the be frost went twenty without thia this cover c 0 v e r it went out inches with it it Is too late now to plant alfalfa or clover but cow peas may yet be sown as may also w later winter rye these will both make a good cover crop by the time frost cornea and will serve tho purpose intended N here orchard orchards b hive tye been in sod all the spring and summer they should not bo be disturbed in the fall but the sod should be left as a cover for the roots of the trees during the winter the so called of or plants ti it a misnomer when such plants are not produced from bied sted selection Is one thing but it Is not dedig celap A plant cannot be its own payout there should bo be a labi on every package of fruit that is sold in the market markt showing where and by whom it was grown this will III ten benj to to do iway with dishonest diH honest pa packing eking |