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side while the opposite side is very much infected. This indicates to you 

 that the spraying was not thorough. 



Besides making the apple undersized, unequally developed and un- 

 sightly, it furnishes an opening for other rot producing spores to enter. 

 A disease following the apple scab that does much damage in New York 

 is the Pink Eot. Whole croi)s of apples in \A\'stern is'ew York have 

 been destroyed by this disease. I have not heard of the Pink Rot doing 

 much damage in Michigan. Michigan buyers decline to buy scabby ap- 

 ples, not only because of their appearance, but because the fruit won't 

 keep well in storage. QMie Blue Mold is a rot that works on bruised or 

 scabby apples ^N'hile in storage. The Blue Mold spores enter the open- 

 ing made by the scab fungus. Your own experience has taught you that 

 the sound apple carefully handled keeps the longest every time. 



The cross section of diseased leaf on this chart, shows you how the 

 spores of the apple scab winter over. 



You people are working with the Horticultiu'e Department at the 

 College to determine the relative values of Bordeaux Mixture and lime 

 and sulphur as a remedy for this disease, so it will be unnecessary at 

 this time for me to discuss the control of this disease. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



(by W. W. PARNSWORTH, OHIO.) 



Those of us who have been attending these meetings the last ten or 

 fifteen years have noticed a great change in the topics that have been 

 discussed and the interest taken in these topics. I can easily remember 

 only a few years ago that the discussion of apples would bring out little 

 or no interest. 



One year, some twelve or fifteen years ago I jjut a question on the pro- 

 gram, partly for my own instniction : ^'Will it pay to i)lant apples on 

 ground worth .flOO \tev acre?" After it Avas discussed the consensus of 

 opinion was that it would be better to jdant our apple orchard on until 

 table land because we were devoting our valuable lands to something- 

 else. When the apple was so regarded, small fruits held their own. 



Now we have gone to the other extreme, and the apple rules, and we 

 are neglecting our small fruits. 



The snmll fruits are valuable because they require a smiall acreage 

 and a small cai)ital ; and if you are not far from the market they are easi- 

 ly disposed of and with the average trucker who has more or less of a 

 family to assist in their care, they become a means of real profit. 



This part of the subject has been discussed so I do not care to go into 

 details but give you a few of the features that appeal to me as being the 

 most essential. 



I will limit my remarks miore especially to the strawberry and currant 

 for the reason that while I have grown blackberries and raspberries in 

 the past 1 liave not been doing so of late. 



As to strawberries 1 do not think it is necessary to say anything about 

 the need of humus because it is understood to be one of the foundations 



