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Apple-Scab Control in Oregon 



I>y H. P. Barss, Professor of Hotaiiy and Plant 



RHI'OHTS from difTerent parts of 

 Oregon (luiini; the i)asl season 

 indicate that Apple Scab has been 

 unusually severe in many sections. 

 Tlie loss due to this disease alone will 

 probably amount this year in rough 

 eslimate to over .*3(l(),(l(l() in this state. 

 In many an unsprayed orchard there 

 could not be found a single scab-free 

 fruil this year, and even in orchards 

 where the owners did spray, Ihere was 



Pathology, Oregon Agricultnral College, Coryallis. 



often a seriously high percentage of 

 scab, sudicient in some cases to re- 

 move all trace of jirofit from the ledger. 

 The question arises as to whether these 

 conditions must continue to exist. Is 

 it really necessary for every particu- 

 larly bad year to take this terrific toll 

 from the Oregon orchardisl? 1 am 

 conndcnt that there is no need of it. 

 For sevci'al years the College has been 

 conducting invesligalions on the con- 



trol of apple scab and at the same time 

 has been watching the work done by 

 practical growers in this direction. 

 From the results of these investiga- 

 tions and observations, the conclusion 

 is forced upon us that, no matter how 

 bad the year may be for this disease, 

 the intelligent application of our 

 present knowledge will result in satis- 

 factory control. 



So much has been written and said 

 on the subject of Apple Scab that there 

 is no need of describing the disease in 

 detail. You understand that the para- 

 sitic fungus which causes it lives 

 through the winter in the dead tissues 

 of the fallen apple leaves, and that in 

 the early spring a crop of siiores is 

 matured which are shot forcibly out 

 of these old leaves and then, caught 

 by the lightest air currents, are carried 

 to the newly-developing foliage and 

 fruit, causing on them the first scab 

 infections of the season. It was for a 

 long time thought that this crop of 

 spores did not mature until about the 

 time the blossoms open and that in- 

 fections could not occur earlier. In 

 Oregon, however, we have found that 

 at least in some seasons these spores 

 may be mature aijjjroximately a month 

 before the blossoms open. Under such 

 circumstances, if the weather condi- 

 tions are favorable, infections may 

 occur before the cluster buds are fully 

 opened, often a considerable time pre- 

 vious to blossoming. These first in- 



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