Show SAVING PINE TREES FROM BLISTER RUST Wild V Currant and Gooseberry Bushes Must Be Removed Disease Is Rapidly Increasing In Northeastern States and Prompt Action Is Needed to Save Timber I Prepared by the United States Department of or A Agriculture A delay of ot one year In destroying the wild lId currants and go gooseberries as asa asa asa a protection against the blister rust will result In the loss of at least 11 per cent of the trees In a young whitepine white white- pine plantation at North Hudson N N. N Y S This planting of ot white pino was made for the purpose of producing another timber crop on an area previously previously previously pre pre- denuded by fire year Three-year- old trees were set out In the spring of 1010 1919 but the wild currant and gooseberry gooseberry gooseberry goose goose- berry bushes on the tract were not destroyed destroyed de de- until 1920 a year n after ter the tho planting The removal of ot the the currant and gooseberry bushes Is nece necessary sary to tosa sa save sae e pine trees from the blister rus rust because they are the te only means by which this disease can spread spread- The pines In tho the plantation were wera examined In the fall full of ot 1921 by agents of the United States Department of ot Agriculture An Aa a n result of ot the trees being exposed for a n single year t to the on the tho currant and goose goose- gooseberry gooseberry berry bushes It was found that 80 SO trees showed Infection originating In 1919 1010 were missing and showed no sign of ot Infection Thus 1510 per percent percent percent cent of ot the living trees or 1120 nw per percent percent percent cent of ot all the tr trees s set out on the tha plat were Infected by y the tha blister bUster rust rustIn rustIn In m a single year and will succumb sooner or later If tho the bushes had been removed before the pines vines were set out this loss would have havo been pre Vre- prevented vented Tho The disease Is rapidly Increasing on white pines In the northeastern states and prompt action by pine owners In destroying currant and gooseberry bushes Is ne necessary essary to prevent serious dama damage e and loss to the pine crop Since wild gooseberry and currant I bushes are among the tho first plants to I sprout and leaf out the they can be bo dis dis- distinguished distinguished I very readily In tho the early spring This season Is ia therefore most favorable for the pine wood-lot wood owner to find and pull them out These bushes should be destroyed inI In Inthe Inthe I the pine stand and around It for a distance dIg dis I tance tanco of at least foot If It the tha search for the bushes Is conducted systematically and If it care Is la taken tc get all the main roots the pines will willbe willbe be prote protected ted from tho the blister rust tot for at least live five years yean |