The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-25

young twigs. The disease appears wherever the trees are grown in any
 part of the country.
 '@The curl has been known for ton years and does its injury in tho win ter, beginning its growth in the spring. The new peach leaves are infected through spores.
 The speaker recommended spraying as q remedy for curls. The spraying
 is now being done by the use of an en- zine of the traction form in Califor- mia, The engine runs between the rows
 of trees with a series of hose scatter
 ing the Bordeaux mixture. The spray
 ing should be done just before the
 opening of the buds The Bordeaux
 mixture should be applied again when
 the spores have become expanded. Then third spray should come probably "a
 week later.
 It was pointed out that California or chards have recently lost from $5,0OU GOO ! to $1O,000O00 annually on account of the ravages of curls.
 Infected Apple Trees, The principal disease of apples Is the
 bitter or ripe rot. It attacks the ap- pie when maturity begins. The losses caused by this disease have been enor- | nous. Hundreds of orchards have been abandoned on account of it. | Even in Northwestern Arkansas and Missouri thousands of once valuable orchards can now be bought for 10 and l 15 cents per acre.
 Warm weather and moist weather are the best combination for engen- | dering the disease of the apple. The bitter rot" is distinctively a fungus growth, Artificial inoculatior of sound trees on Monday has caused l to hafnrn Wednesday, l of the same week.
 Only recently 1t has been discovered
 that the top of the apple tree is the seat of the disease. In nearly every | infected tree cankered growth of the | limbs at the top of the cone will be | observed.
 From the top the fungus bacteria | drop to the lower limbs and attack the | fruit. Hence the necessity of destroy ing the canker. The cankered limbs must be cut off, taken out of the
 orchard entirely and destroyed The spores of the bitter" rot arc | carried by air currents more frequent ly than by rain.
 Dr, Wilcox referred to pear blight which is well known everywhere the | tree is grown. He humorously allud- | ed to the semi-superstitious methods some growers have adopted to fight l the blight.
 Some have hung horse shoes on the
 limbs. others have nailed the trunks
 and no few have affixed United States flags to the trees. In all instances
 however. the blight continued and even
 has chosen to follow our flag just as
 millions of other living beings do. All kinds of insects. including bees. | that gather the nectar and such suste-
 nance from flowers carry the bacteria
 of the blight to the pear trees. The
 infection is carried to the most deli 1 cate culture of the tree in the blos- soms. Thence 1t spreads" Pruning of the infected limbs and
 thorough spraying are recommended
 as remedies for the cure of the blight. | Destruction of the limbs infected is l necessary.
 | The society adjourned at 1 o'clock
 until 2:S0 o'clock in the afternoon al
 the close of Dr. Wilcoxs discourse on
 peach, apple and pear diseases. 1 Discussed State Fair. NJ. B. Houghton. a member of the
 executive committee of the Montgom-
 cry County Agricultural Association
 responded to q call for an explanation
 of the State Fair movement. | He told of the plan of n stock com pany to be capitalized at $50,00O divid- | ed into shares of $25 each. The fail
 is to be held annually in Montgomery
 and exhibit every resource, manufac-
 turing, agricultural and industrial in-
 terests in the State. In the agricul-
 tural exhibits, of course. is to be in-
 cluded the very important branch ol
 horticulture
 The State fair project as outlined
 by MT. Houghton, was highly favored
 in a few remarks by members of tho society. Finally, on motion of A. Fl
 Brinkman, of Mobile, resolution
 that 1t is the sense of the Alabama