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I have seen buds of apple trees blight as well as apples three quart- 

 ers grown. 



I tried turpentine as a remedy and succeeded in one case and fail- 

 ed in several others. I have found blight under the bark ; and seen 

 it dry up and again rot down with the whole tree. 



Grape-rot I have never seen in my vine-yard but once, in a very 

 wet season, so wet that vines threw out rootlets where they were tied 

 to the stakes. But I have had a blight that shrunk every Catawba 

 on the place, occurring in the latter part of May or the first of 

 June. It looked as if a caustic solution had been sprinkled upon the 

 leaves and burned right through them, making brown spots. It 

 made hardened spots on the grape. Only the Catawba was affected, 

 and I have only known of it at another place in Bureau County. 



Warder — Carbolic acid must be carefully used; water is not its 

 solvent, and a separation occurs when the mixture strikes the plant. 

 It is soluble in alkaline solutions. Get the crude materials rather 

 than the soap. They are much cheaper. 



Turner, (in reply to Mr. Shepherd) — There is a great differ- 

 ence between the different sorts of what is called blights. Ninety- 

 nine out of a hundred of the apple and oak blights are caused by 

 insects. I except from this statement the blight in the sugar maple, 

 which seems analogous to that of the pear. 



Column — I hope the bitter rot in apples will be examined. It is 

 very bad in Southern Missouri and elsewhere. It attacks orchards 

 after they have been a few years in bearing, and is worst on the 

 oldest trees. 



Hull — I move that the Society recommend that members root- 

 prune their pear trees by the method and at the times recommended 

 in my report, and report from time to time to the Society. Carried. 



Pullen — Does the move mean that we shall root-prune trees at- 

 tacked with blight ? 



Hull — I only recommend root-pruning where there is danger of 

 blight. 



Paul R. Wright, of South Pass, read the following : 



