The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-08
HORTICULTURE
DISEASES OF FRUIT TREES AND
REMEDIES.

Mr.. 9. W. Hyams, Assistant Botan-
list and Entomologist, N. @. AgricuI
tural Experiment Station, has been IN
Iredell for some weeks and while there
wrote an article on Diseases Of Ffuit
Trees in IredeIl county" As the article
is of general interest, we copy it here
with in full. Nj. Hyams says:
A scientific treatise on the above dis
eases is not what is aimed at in this
article, because the people whom it is
intended to benefit, and who will profit
by a careful consideration Of the facts
stated, are the ones who have nc tech
nical knowledge on such subjects, and
the author is convinced of the fact that
the palmer he makes his statements,
the greater will be the benefits deriv, d,
hence it becomes his duty to discard
technical terms, and use nothing but
plain, practical. common ems Ian
guage. This course will insure its be
ing read and appreciated 90 say the
least,) wen though its instructions
may never be put into practice.
LEAF BLIGHT.
This troublesome and destructive
disease first makes it appearance as a
bright, round yellow speck on the leaf,
gradually growing larger, until the
entire leaf loses its bright green color,
turns yellow or brown, and finally
dies, thue depriving the entire tree of
one Of it's principal mean Of support,
because it ia a well established fact
that all the food and growth material
out of which the tree and the fruit is
made is manufactured in the leaves
From very careful, elaborate, andlong
continued experiments carried on by
the experiment stations all over the
United States, I am satisfied that the
best and most successful
REMEDY,
is q mixture of kerosene oil and water
in the proportion Of one quart Of oil to
one gallon Of water. This must be ap
piled as a spray, using for the purpose
an ordinary hand spray or spray pump
which can be purchased at the hard
ware stores for q small sum. Remem-
Der to DO this work in a thorough,
complete manner, and don't be afraid
of using too much of it on your trees.
Such a remedy will cost you on an
average, about f7e cents per tree, and
since you cannot buy new trees and
wait for them to reach maturity for
this small amount, it is easy to see the
value of it to you as an investment,
The extra yield in bushels each year,
to say nothing of the improved condi
tion Of your fruit, will more than re
pay you for the outlay.
WIG BLIGHT.
This disease first shows itself to you
as a brown, dead end of the smaller
limbs, and since it completely destroys,
kills, the twig it is at once evident to
all persons that something must be
done to check and stop the work of
this blight when it first appears, or
else the entire tree in the ourse of a
very short time will become the victim
of this dread disease and the result will
be a dead fruit tree. For this trouble
I have only the following
REMEDY
to cfsr. It is absolutely necessary to
first cut eff ell the dead twigs, back to
the green, live wood, and burn them at
once. Don't wait about this matter q
single hour, because your successful
treatment and cure of this disease de-
ponds on your burning the dead
branches at once. After you have cut
them all eff then take the above mix
ture and spray your trees with it once
or twice, allowing several weeks to
elapse between applications. These
two diseases are very common, ex 3eed-
ingly plentiful, and dangerously de
structive to apple and pear trees in Ire
dell county. Some idea as to the
amount which our fruit growers lose
each year in dollars and cents may be
had from the folio wing figures, which
I have secured from that shrewd bust
ness man, whom you all know, Mr..
Isaac Wallace, of Statewide:
During the year 1895 Mesars Wallace
Bros. bought something like SO, 600