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Show Anthracnose Disease Is Enemy of Raspberries One of the common enemies of a full raspberry crop is anthracnose disease. dis-ease. It is quite prevalent, and, this, together with crown gall, has discouraged discour-aged many from attempting to raise cane fruit. It is detected by a spotty appearance of the canes, and these places are centers of infection. Frop-er Frop-er spraying helps to control anthracnose. anthrac-nose. For the first spray use liquid lime-sulphur, 10 gallons in 100 gallons of water. The commercial liquid lime-sulphur lime-sulphur recommended is about 33 degrees de-grees Baume, and dilutions of this strength test should be used. For the next spray bordeaux mixture is recommended, rec-ommended, at the rate of 4-8-100, which means 4 pounds copper sulphate, sul-phate, 8 pounds stone or lump lime to 100 gallons of water. The use of lime-sulphur lime-sulphur at the second spray is not recommended. rec-ommended. Black raspberries require re-quire spraying every season, but reds are not so susceptible to anthracnose. |