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earlier. There aie two methods of dealing with this disease in 

 this state.— discarding susceptible varieties, and plowing up the 

 patch [after the first crop is off. These means are very effective 

 when they are systenratically pursued. There is a general and 

 growing tendency to fruit the strawberry patch but one year, and 

 there are strong reasons in favor of it aside from the desire to 

 check the blight. 



It has been proved by Professor Garman, of Kentucky, and 

 others, that this leaf-blight can be subdued by fungicides, but it 

 remained to make a practical test of the operation in strawberry 

 fields in this state. Mr. Walter F. Taber, of Poughkeepsie. un- 



Leaf-bLight of the 



Strawberry. 



dertook experiments for us, but the sea- 

 son was so excessively dry that the rust 

 did not spread, and he obtained no re- 

 sults. I also made a test upon the farmof A.Iv.Stickney,North Col- 

 lins, Erie Co. The berries were Crescent and Lovett, planted upon 

 lightsandy or gravelly soil, and the patch had given one crop. Parts 

 of the plantation were heavily sprayed on July 7, with Bordeaux 

 mixture (6 lbs. sulphate copper, 4 lbs. lime, 40 gallons water). 

 A prolonged drought followed, and the plantation was much neg- 

 lected. A second spraying was given July 23, but the weeds were 

 so numerous that the application could not be properly made. 

 The disease did not spread rapidly because of the dryness. On 



