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weeks if the weather is damp and conditions favorable for rot. Last 

 year Hale's and Early Rivers peach trees were sprayed for the second 

 season with the the Bordeaux mixture. The results show, first, that 

 spraying will increase the amount of sound fruit from three to four 

 fold ; second, that while a year ago spraying after the fruit reached 

 the size of large peas did not diminish the amount of rot, such was 

 not the case last year, owing to the rainy season at the period of ripen- 

 ing, trees sprayed at the period of coloring showing less rot than those 

 not sprayed at this time ; third, that trees sprayed ten days or two 

 weeks after the beginning of coloring did not effect additional diminu- 

 tion of the rot; fourth, that a rational and effective plan for treating 

 peach orchards for rot would be to spray three times — just before 

 blossoming, after the bloom has entirely dropped and at the beginning 

 of coloring. — Orange Judd Farmer. 



PEACHES WITH "WILTED BLACK SIDES." 



p. L. B. , Dresden, 0.— Our Salway peach orchard, six years old, has borne two crops. 

 I think the ground Is too rich, as the peaches grow large, but are not perfect; they have 

 wilted black sides, do not color well, and are Inclined to rot badly. The trees have made 

 a strong growth, and are large. The land, before being planted to peaches, was used for 

 sheep pasture, and being the highest ground in the field, was where they lay at night, 

 which made it rich. It is rather new ground, has not been farmed very much, but has 

 been cleared long enough for the stumps to be all gone. It is damp, but no water ever 

 stands on It. Since being planted to peaches, it has raised two crops of corn, and since 

 that, has been in grass and weeds for its second crop last summer. 



Answer — It may be that the soil is too rich in nitrogen for the best 

 development of the fruit of the peach, but, if so, it is from too much 

 sheep manure. But the chief trouble, probably, lies in the fungous 

 diseases which have preyed on the fruit. The " wilted black sides " 

 are, in all probability, the result of a disease which is often called 

 " peach spot," and comes from numerous colonies of a microscopical 

 fungus, each. being a spot much like a fly-speck, and together forming 

 a dry, scabby appearance on the surface of the peach, and a stunted 

 growth of that part of the fruit. Sometimes exceedingly hot spells and 

 protracted growth cause a lack of normal development on the side 

 next the sun. These troubles were quite common in many parts of the 

 country the past season. " Peach rot" is the result of another fungus 

 which finds the most favorable development in warm, wet weather. 

 The remedy for these diseases is the burning of the remnants of 

 diseased fruit left in the orchard at once, and repeated spraying with 

 fungicides, in accordance with specific printed directions, which should 

 be procured without delay from the State Experiment Station of Ohio 

 (at Wooster), or, in case of trouble in other states, of the State Ex- 

 periment Stations H. E. Van Deman, in Rural New Yorker. 



