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The Crown Gall 



By Walter G. Sackett, Colorado Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado 



INn purchasing nursery stock, as well 

 as in buying other commodities, the 

 investor does well to go into the deal 

 with his eyes open. From the stand- 

 point of the horticulturist, there are 

 always certain things to be desired in 

 young trees, but equally important is it 

 that the stock shall be in perfect health 

 and entirely free from disease. 



Crown gall, in any of its various 

 forms, is the one disease to be feared 

 most not only because of its disastrous 

 nature but because it is the one which 

 the unscrupulous nurseryman will at- 

 tempt to pass off on the unsuspecting 

 and inexperienced orchardist. In what- 

 ever form crown gall manifests itself, 

 whether as hard gall, soft gall or hairy 



root, it has been shown to be caused 

 by a germ that lives in the soil and 

 which enters the plant through wounds 

 induced by poor grafting, careless culti- 

 vation and by borers, nematodes, etc. 



In its ordinary form, crown gall is 

 characterized by the appearance of 

 swellings or galls, small at first, usually 

 just below the ground line (crown) at 

 or near the junction of the stock and 

 scion; these may also occur on the 

 small secondary roots. They may be 

 either soft or hard galls; the former 

 are smooth, soft, spongy white or flesh- 

 colored outgrowths which may reach a 

 very appreciable size during one sea- 

 son and then be entirely decomposed 

 and disappear by the following spring; 



the latter increase in size more .slowly, 

 persist year after year, harden and be- 

 come rough and warty on the surface 

 with age. Frequently the disease 

 assumes a form known as "hairy root," 

 characterized by the presence of 

 bunches or tufts of closely-matted root- 

 lets with marked enlargements at their 

 bases. 



As the galls increase in size, the func- 

 tion of the adjacent conducting tissue 

 is interfered with, and the circulation 

 is impaired, as is shown by the poor 

 growth and dwarfed appearance of 

 afTected trees. 



The removal of the galls, a practice 

 often indulged in by dishonest nursery- 

 men, results in no permanent benefit. 

 The thorough inspection of nursery 

 stock and care in the cultivation of the 

 orchards not to wound the crowns are 

 important factors in the control of the 

 trouble. Plant only on uninfected land 

 and avoid heeling in healthy stock 

 where the disease is known to be pres- 

 ent in the soil. 



Crown gall is an infectious disease 

 and can be communicated from tree to 

 tree and from one plant family to 

 another. A partial list of the plants 

 upon which it occurs naturally or upon 

 which it has been produced by labora- 

 tory inoculation includes the daisy, to- 

 mato, potato, carnation, peach, rose, 

 cabbage, grape, hop, sugar-beet, turnip, 

 red beet, carrot, radish, chrysanthe- 

 mum, oleander, marigold, pyrethrum, 

 almond, clover, white poplar, Persian 

 walnut, gray poplar, cotton, alfalfa, 

 raspberry, geranium, apple, willow, 

 quince and tobacco. 



Home Dry Curing of Hams 

 Bacon and Shoulders 



To each 100 pounds of meat use 8 

 pounds of salt, 3 pounds of warm syrup 

 (any good syrup can be used, or home- 

 made sugar syrup may be substituted), 

 2 ounces of saltpeter, 3 ounces of black 

 pepper and 2 ounces of red pepper. 



All the above ingredients should be 

 thoroughly mixed together. It will first 

 lump up and darken. When these lumps 

 are rubbed out the ingredients are ready 

 to rub in the meat and should make a 

 coating over it. The syrup causes it to 

 stick. The meat can be put into a bar- 

 rel or box or piled on the table, which 

 should be clean. There will be a drain- 

 age which is better taken care of in a 

 barrel or tight box. 



Leave the meat six weeks in the cure 

 and the extra heavy pieces a week 

 longer. If you wish to smoke it, take 

 it right out of the pile and hang it in 

 the smokehouse, without washing and 

 smoke it until you get the required 

 color. Be careful not to have your 

 smokehouse too hot, not over 120 

 degrees. 



The home curing of pork is an art 

 which can he easily acquired. Farmers' 

 Bulletin 913 gives information about 

 the preparation of the farm-meat sup- 

 ply. Obtain it from the Agricultural 

 Extension Service. 



WILLIAM E. SCHNEIDER, 

 Swine Extension, University of Arizona 



and U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



