Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF COUNTY
Efficiency Expert Will De Here in August to Give Hints to
 Farmers About Conduct of Business Other Extension
 Men Also in Field County Fair Exhbiss are Important
 Observations of the County Agent.

and feed The farmer will be asked to feed the herd in accordance with the extension mans directions. Other sug- gestions as regard to management and care will be followed out, making the herd as efficient as possible. About ls of these herds will be cared for the first two years and probably two of these herds vii. be established in New London county
 Very few herds in the state pay as they should and the examples set oy these model herds should serve as a guide to better and more profitable dairying.
 Fire Blight Menace to Fruit Trees.
 Fire blight has made it's appearance in some sections of New London coua- ty this year and is far more serious than hitherto It promises to be more ures are not taken immediately to check it. Fire blight in the western states has changed many fields over into wheat growing fields or pastures. 1 The only way to control this blight is by cutting out all diseased twigs and ] sections of bark where it can be found and burn them immediately. This work must be done thoroughly in order to be successful.
 Tie disease often appears on apples, pears, quinces and other pomaceous fruits and is often called twig blight
  win and Ben Davis it does not get down into the Alexander, Transcen- dent, Crab, King, Wealthy and Snow. When the young twigs are attacked | the leaves die down. turn black and color up as if the twig had been killed by frost or scorched by fire blight. The disease may pass from young twigs into old branches or into the trunk, where it causes cankers, that is, dead sections on the bark These cankers 1 appear at first as darker colored areas which later become black They en- 1 large in all directions if the weather conditions are favorable; they tend to enlarge up and down instead of i across the tree. Oftentimes it produces what is commonly called collar rot. The disease generally works through the !. blossom or through the bark where | some insect has punetured it. Water ! sprouts and rapidly growing twigs are more susceptible than other sections 1 of trees. It spreads more rapidly dur 1 ing the fast growing months of May and June than in July and August Flies, bees. wasps and other carriers ! spread the disease.
 In cutting out the affected parts one should be sure to get back six to ten 1 inches beyond where the disease shows 1 that it has worked. The pruning tool :, whether shear or saw, should be dis i infected with corrosive sublimate-one
 
 making each cut All diseased twigs and pieces of bark should be burned ! up immediately after collected because bacteria leave even after the twigs have been moved from the tree Ore , should go through his orchard each week looking for new infections and i they should be cut out. Let all in New i London county who are interested in ] the future of the apple business dc their part toward doing away with , this dread disease. Call on the agent to inspect your orchards if you have l any idea that this is present.
 County Fair Exhibits.
 i The season for agricultural fairs will soon be at hand. Every farmer ! should have something on his farm that is worthy of taking to the fair. 4 man is known largely by the products of his labor. and one of the best ways to get free advertising is to exhibit ir the local county fair. That it pays tc