Show PRUNE BITTER ROT CANKERS disease Is 1 constant Co monaco to the apple grower growers and varies greatly in its it virulence in sections where here bitter rot Is known to occur the disease is A contant constant menace to the apple grower it varies greatly in virulence in different year years sometimes being eo so as to destroy the crop over large areas it eldom weldom bothers the fruit of early apples apple aa as it does not appear on tle fruit until mid summer it attacks the limbs however and forms cankers from which the spores are given off ott early in the season the cange rs are sunken areas of the bark which are dark in color ad hero bero closely to the underlying wood and aad are moro or less cracked crack eJ chwe areas produce the spores from which the disease di a ease Is spread cankered limbs in pruning where the canker is small and on a large vig erous limb pare OS 02 the dead burk b rk with the pruning knife and paint the wound spray the trees at least four times the next jeason season with bordeaux Dor deaux mixture |