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of the country for scab control. Limc- 

 sulphur, liowever, is not perfect in all 

 respects, for in the higher strengths 

 it will cause burning of apple foliage, 

 and even in the lower dilutions, pai- 

 ticularly with drenching, it may result 

 in in.jin-y to foliage, although this is 

 not usually of great importance. Under 

 certain conditions, however, the injury 

 may !)e quite severe, and in addition to 

 scorch on the leaves there is also a 

 serious tendency to cause sunburn on 

 the fruit in hot weather. Complaints 

 of the trouble just referred to come, I 

 believe, largely from sections subject 

 to at least occasional spells of very 

 high temperature. 



Other fungicides are now being tried 

 out experimentally over the country 

 and new combinations of fungicides as 

 well, in an attempt to find a suitable 

 spraying program which will give the 

 desired control of scab and avoid at 

 the same time the injuries which have 

 been mentioned. The Agricultural Col- 

 lege has been making tests for the past 

 two years under the direction of Mr. 

 Winston at the Hood River Branch 

 Experiment Station and some interest- 

 ing facts bearing upon the problems of 

 scab control have been brought to light. 

 Some additional investigations in which 

 the writer was assisted by the horti- 

 cultural inspectors of the state have 

 laid bare many of the reasons for lack 

 of success in scab control, and have 

 pointed out the way to remedy some 

 of the difliculties. 



In connection with the work on 

 apple scab in the Hood River Valley 

 if was found that the period of most 

 abundant scab infection in lfll,S oc- 

 curred in the latter part of June. In 

 the following year, on the other hand, 

 the most serious infection occurred 

 previous to the time the flower buds 

 showed color. Furthermore, during 

 the season of lOl.'i, the most disastrous 

 infection occurred as a result of a long 

 rainy period, eonmiencing perhaps two 

 weeks after the petals began to fall. 

 Each year there were a great main- 

 growers whose apple crop sufl'cred 

 badly, but at the same time each year 

 there were some whose apples were 

 practically clean. Investigation showed 

 that Ihe men who had clean fruit were 

 those who had made an application of 

 fungicide not long before the critical 

 period. This is illustrated also in one 

 locality in Soulhern Ore.gon, where 

 during the past season there was a 

 spell of wet weather favorable to scab 

 four or five weeks after the bloom fell. 

 In an orchard where the owner gave 

 the usual four ai)plications there was 

 but .^ per cent of scabby fruit. An- 

 other fiTower in the same district gave 

 three sprayin.gs, with excellent control 

 as far as he went, but omitted Ihe 

 fourth application. After Ihe rainy 

 ]K'riod referred to, 70 i)er cent of his 

 fruit developed scab sjiots. 



It is evident, from these examples, 

 that in Ore.gon there is such variability 

 in weather conditions through the 

 spring, that in order to be certain of a 

 clean crop Ihe grower must protect 

 his trees bv a suilable fungicide 



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