130 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Bi-auiau — This is sometimes difficult to do, but I tliiuk it is wise 

 if possible. 



A Member — In our county we are having trees affected with Little 

 T'each. I would like to know how we can know this, and what are the 

 first symptoms of the disease? 



Mr. Braman — The first symptoms in our locality are dropping of 

 leaves on the inside of the tree. We had trees that made from three to 

 four feet growth, that showed no signs of Little Peach, especially in 

 one orchard until the trees began to get through growing. It started 

 right in where the growth first began and crept up. You will notice 

 it in the color of the fruit, and sometimes it Avill cause a delay in the 

 -ripening of the fruit, and sometimes the fruit will ripen prematurely. 

 It varies with the season. If the season is dry there will be delay in 

 ii]iening. We have not had a very great deal of trouble with it. The 

 first two irees I noticed was a number of years ago in a block of Oceauas. 

 I cut them down and have not noticed the disease in that immediate 

 vicinity now for a number of years. We have not lost many with it. 

 We did not allow thetn to run over from one year to another, but burned 

 them up. One or two trees during one season got neglected until burn- 

 ing time; they Avere not burned up and there was some of the disease 

 that developed right there. The healthy trees were inoculated. 



Mr. Smythe — If we used half as much judgment in this matter as 

 they did when they had the foot and mouth disease, we might accom- 

 plish something. You know when they are suspected, not a bit of stock 

 was allowed to be moved through an infected territory until it had 

 been quarantined a sufficient length of time, so that it was absolutely 

 all right. This Little Peach and the Yellows is as bad in Berrien county 

 as anywhere in the state. We have no Yellows Commissioner. Unless 

 the fiiiit growers get busy and eradicate the disease it will prove a 

 very great damage. 



-Mr. Hale — I would like to have a little more definite information as 

 to how I am to know this disease of Little Peach for sure, for I want 

 to say right here that I think that disease one of the hardest of all dis- 

 eases to detect. I went to Douglas v/lien Messrs. Waite and Daniels were 

 carrying on their experiments and examination to learn how to detect 

 Little Peach. I didn't know whether I had it or not. We had our meet- 

 ing there for that purpose. They didn't have any fruit. They were 

 going to tell of the particular color and crinkle of the leaf, how to 

 detect it. I was slow to catch on and somehow I couldn't get a right 

 color of the leaf to knoAV when it was that or something else. I picked 

 more leaves and said I have got it now. Professor comes up and looks 

 wise: "No," said he, ''That is not just the color," and then I thought 

 it Avas pretty near time for me to get busy. I tried some more experi- 

 ments and Avas Avrong about eAerv time. After a time I took a little 

 branch and inspected it and said: ''I haven't got it here," but then 

 the Professor said this: ''You liaA^e got it, you have got it." That was 

 tlie joke, but I bring this out to illustrate how difli'cult it is to detect 

 that Little Peach. I cannot tell it to this day. 



Mv. Smythe — I have had some experience Avitli Little Peach and it 

 was the advice of a man who came to us from the department that when 

 Ave see on the trees evidence of Little Peach, the best way was to take 

 no risk and jerk them out. 



