The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-04-19
Given by the Georgia Department
of Agriculture
FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL.
some News Relating to Farming, Gar
dening, Dairying, Stock Raising,
Etc. Which VIII Be Interest
ing to the Farmers.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
ATLANTA, April I, 1894.
WIND BROKEN,

~ horses! nave mule that think
mas heaves. Only 10 days ago noticed
ner breathing rather hard in blowing.
l nave been feeding her on forage corn
ana 1T is little dirty. think perhaps
tn!s Is the cause as she has never been
DRIVEN hard and it only came on her in
Inc last few days. What is the cause
OF the heavest w. j. c.,
Social Circle.
The heaves or broken wind consist in
the entrance of the air into her natural
or dllated cells of the lungs from which
1t cannot be expelled without calling
into play the muscles of the chest. The
unchanged air in the lungs being con-
slant source of irritation there is de-
sire TO get rid of the surplus causing
TWO acts OF respiration. It is produced
by severe gallop after full meal
suddenly or is of slow growth in conse-
quence OF a neglected chronic cough.
Only as an irritant to cough could
the forage have aided the developm emit
of the disease.
There is no cure for fhe disease and
the treatment can only be palliative.
Inc animal should be carefully dieted
and confined to slow work. Bleeding
has been found beneficial.
PEAR BLIGHT.
Recently the pear trees of Liberty
county, hitherto free from all charac-
terlstics of blight, were suddenly strick-
en- with the disease. In order to secure
accurate information on the various dis
eases known as blight, and to have
competent horticulturist visit the sec
ton, we requested the opinion of Mr..
II. A. Starnes, horticulturist of the Elk
pertinent station, on an inquiry on this
subject. We give a portion of his re-
ply, as it is of general interest to all
fruit growers:
ut is probable that the pear trees of
which Mr.. N. speaks, are affected by
blight Of some kind. His description
is meager, however, and it is impossi-
BILE, without either personal examina-
ton or fuller description, to pronounce
WAUh nny Cc1 bdAAIy
''You know there are three kinds of
blight affecting pears,-Leaf, Twig and
Zymotic. The first Qeaf blight is caused
by the puncture of the byllopyri-an in
sect. The second (twig blight is also
caused by an insect-oxylobokus pyri-
and, like twig blight, is not usually ia
tai. There is little, however, in the
way of remedy for either, except annual
trimming and destruction of twigs SO
pruned. The third kind (zymotic blight
is much more serious, and is produced
by a observation-disclosures amylo-
voius-and being germ disease is much
more insidious and fatal than either of
the other kinds.
II am rather of the opinion that the
Liberty county trees are affected by
twig blight-zymotic blight rarely at
tacking LeContes."
FUNGICIDEs.
The destruction of fruit and fruit
trees by fungi and other parasites has not
in our state received the attention it
merits. The resultant disease and the
cause where trees are attacked or affect
ed is usually by spraying. To call the
attention of our farmers to this subject
in a recent number of the reports, we
dealt with the subject gently, but as now
is the proper time to use many of the
recipes given, we give the most valua-
BILE. as found in the handbook of the ex-
pertinent station.
The various preparations used in the
the treatment of fungous diseases of
plants are as rule preventive remedies,
and their successful use depends very
largely on early and repeated applica-
tons. No fixed rule can be laid down
as to when and how often fungicides
should be used. Many diseases are
greatly checked by drenching and
washing the trees, shrubs or vines
before the buds begin to show,
with mixture of greater strength than
that given in ordinary formulas. For
this purpose formula one and two given
below may be used in double or triple
strength. In some cases second spray
ing should follow the falling of flowers.
Rain falling soon after application of
fungicides is likely to wash them off.
In such cases spray again as soon as
possible after the rain. Care must be
exercised not to use fungicide solutions
which will injure foliage.
In preparing fungicides it must be re-
membered that ordinary commercial
chemicals vary in strength: For veg
etables and animal plants in general the
first spraying should be done after the
plant is well up and in vigorous growth.
The succeeding sprayings should be
made at intervals of about two weeks
throughout the season.
Particular courses of treatment are re-
qpired for some diseases. The spraying
should be thoroughly done 90 as to reach