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BETTER FRUIT 



January 



FARMERS 



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 also in plowing the low 

 soft spots and hill- 

 sides must be consid- 

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 another requirement en- 

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Some Prune Fruit Troubles, Etc. 



Continued from page 8. 



or less like that in the gum spot condi- 

 tion, but in extensive ai'eas. No para- 

 site was evident in the tissues and such 

 fruits kept for weeks in the laboratory 

 showed no increase in the size of the 

 affected areas, which would certainly 

 not be the case if it were a true rot. 

 The question naturally arises as to the 

 cause and nature of the injury. 



The circumstantial evidence points, I 

 think, to a connection between these 

 somewhat puzzling troubles and the 

 drouth conditions of the season. At 

 certain critical times it would seem that 

 the water drawn out of the foliage on 

 hot days was probably more than the 

 root systems of individual trees in 

 many of the orchards could success- 

 fully replenish, and this does not neces- 

 sarily imiJy that the soil was down to 

 the lowest ebb of moisture content at 

 such times. It simply means that under 

 the conditions the demand was greater 

 than the supply. 



In orchards where the soil was 

 poorly cared for and excessively dry, or 

 where the soil was shallow, more 

 trouble was reported than from soils 

 that were deeper or better cared for. 

 Hilltops suffered more than lowjr 

 levels in many cases. Here extreme 

 transpiration conditions naturally pre- 

 vailed. Yet trouble was also expe- 

 rienced on well tilled soil and even on 

 land that had been irrigated. Mr. C. E. 

 Stewart, in Lane County, reported on 

 an orchard where the trees that had 

 received one irrigation early in July 

 ■were nearly all affected later on. In 

 this instance the soil was more or less 

 gravelly. If my analysis of this situa- 

 tion is at all correct, the trees were 

 probably stimulated to abundant new 

 growth by the early irrigation. Then 

 when the critical time came the total 

 draft of moisture from the heavy tops 

 was greater than the roots in the 

 gravelly soil could meet. In a very old 

 orchard not far away, with much better 

 soil conditions, the trees met the de- 

 mand without any effect on the fruit 

 even in two rows which had received 

 irrigation. As would be expected with 

 the variation in root systems and in 

 soil conditions the individual trees in 

 many orchards showed great differ- 

 ences in the amount of injury present. 

 Some trees lost nearly all the crop, 

 others half the crop, while even in the 

 worst orchards there were usually scat- 

 tered trees which showed little or no 

 eft'ects. Orchards with trees close to- 

 gether, where there was great competi- 

 tion for soil moisture on the part of the 

 root systems, often showed consider- 

 able damage. 



The conviction that there is a real 

 connection between the dry season and 

 the prevalence of these fruit troubles 

 is considerably strengthened by the in- 

 teresting discoveries which certain in- 

 vestigators have made in the last few 

 years to which I wish to call your 

 attention. Dr. W. H. Chandler, work- 

 ing in Missouri on the water relations 

 in various fruits, found that when the 

 normal water supply of a fruit-bearing 



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