Show ANOTHER PEST AFTER APPLES Red Cedar Rust Proves Damaging Damaging- to Or Or- Orchard Orchard Orchard chard WASHINGTON Oct 8 By By The Associated Press When When Capt John Smith as he wrote for record planted plan d apple seeds at nt Johnstown Va he little guessed that the woods of the new continent harbored a B minute but b t deadly enemy enem of the apple tree Unsuspected by the colonists there lurked among red cedar trees treesa a Co fungus that vas was to make a se serious se- se serious rious attack two centuries later on descendants of the fruit trees they had planted Even then cedar rust as the disease Is now known completed Its life lUr cycle on the na na- native native native tive crab apple It was natures nature's job to adapt rust spores to the Imported Im im- imported imported ported relative LOSES IN IS VIRGINIA IA How well ell it succeeded was dem dem- demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated In 1914 According to official estimate cedar cedr rust destroyed de- de destro ed barrels of 01 commercial commer commer- commercial commercial cial apples In the Winchester Va Va t iC alone on The disease had ask been found o and d identified t in the same lame region rl seven year jears before by Dr M. M 2 L B. B Waite Walte federal plant pathologist The rust Is present again this year ear ear Dr Waite Walle says says says-no no more se serious se- se rious than expected but certainly on the Increase wherever here infected red cedars grow near orchards Its damage is attested by defoliated apple boughs and dwarfed under- under colored fruit From 90 to 95 per percent percent percent cent of the damage is done through attacks on the leaf which killed cuts off nutrition and stunts the fruit growth Remaining Injury In Includes In- In Includes includes spotting of the apple Itself LIFE CYCLE CLE SHOWS SHOWN Three living plants are necessary necessary necessary sary to the year two-year life lile cycle of cedar rust the rust the red cedar tree tree- the apple or or Its relatives and the cedar ce cedar ce- ce cedar dar rust fungus In spring the lIt lIt- little tle le brown r balls on the t cedar tree start r exuding dl their rr rrt orange colored IO gelatinous spore masses Secondary spores pores or from on the first rain after apples reach the pink bud stage At every rain rainor for lor or about six weeks the very nry light and minute is thrown off of and carried by the wind to the young oung apple leaves Where Infected red cedars arc are abundant Dr Waite Walte says sas apple or orchards or- or orchards orchards four miles away may b be en endangered en- en endangered The only safe practice practices Is s to cut down the cedars The nature of the attack atuck and the leaf growth olith make spraying Impracticable ble Virginia has bas a county option law requirIng Infected d red cedars with with- within In n two miles of an apple orchard be destroyed Owners of the trees are arc compensated from front an extra tax on orchard lands in the area |