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GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT 

 PORTLAND 

 for illustrated booklets, information, etc. 



San Diego's Beautiful Exposition closes with 



the end of December 



Include it in the first part of your tour 



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buds, etc., between the leaves of an old 

 newspaper, a few between each two 

 .sliiets. Then roll into a tight bundle, 

 wrap in stout paper. Tie well, attach 

 one of the franked tags on which you 

 have written your name, address and 

 mail. It will go ijoslage free. Yours 

 for success in this undertaking, H. H, 

 Whetzel, head of the Department of 

 Plant Pathology, New York State Col- 

 lege of .\griculture, Cornell L'niversitx-. 



The Leaf Blister Mite 



Kefl or green blister-like spots ap- 

 |)earing in the early spring on the foli- 

 age of the apple and pear are usually 

 due to the leaf blister mile. This is 

 not an insect, but a small animal, in- 



visible to the unaided eye, which 

 attacks standard varieties of pear and 

 apple trees and often inflicts serious 

 damage. Where trees are seriously in- 

 fested, the premature fall of both fruit 

 and leaves may result. In such cases 

 a sjjecial application of lime-sulphur 

 wash or other spray may be necessar\-. 

 Ordinarily, however, the regular or- 

 chard spraying is sullicient to control 

 the mite. Badly-infested branches of 

 the pear trees may be cut olT and 

 bui-netl.' Care should be taken not to 

 confuse the work of the mite with the 

 leaf-spol disease or the results of heavy 

 spraxing. 



Describing the leaf blistei' mile, 

 showing how it may be reco.ynized, and 

 givin.g methods for ils conlrol, the 



I'nited States Department of Agricul- 

 ture has issued a new Farmers' Bul- 

 letin, No. 722, "The Leaf Blister Mite 

 of Pear and Apple," by A. L. Quain- 

 tance. The leaf blister mite passes the 

 winter beneath the bud scales. There 

 it waits for the opening of the buds 

 and attacks the young leaves as soon 

 as they push out in the spring. The 

 tiny animals boie small holes from the 

 underside of the leaves into the inte- 

 rior, where they lay their eggs. This 

 causes the small, pimple-like galls on 

 the upper surface of the leaves. The 

 spols later increase in size, sometimes 

 to one-eighth of an inch, and on the 

 pear tree are red and often brilliantly 

 colored as they grow. In the case of 

 the apple, the eruptions lack the more 

 brilliant coloring and are found more 

 along the margin of the leaf. In both 

 cases the spols finally turn brown or 

 black, and if the pest is abundant the 

 leaves become ruptured and wrinkled. 



More than 2,")0 varieties of apples are 

 attacked t)y the mite, injury being espe- 

 cially severe on some well-known com- 

 mercial sorts, such as the Ben Davis, 

 the King, Baldwin, Bhode Island (ireen- 

 ing, and the Williams Favorite. Where 

 orchards are seriously infested, as has 

 been noted in New York State, lime- 

 sulphur washes give excellent results. 

 They avoid the injurious clfects upon 

 fruit buds which sometimes result 

 from the use of oil sprays. The wash 

 should be applied thoroughly, coating 

 the twigs and branches. 



A standard solution of kerosene emul- 

 sion may also be used. The stock solu- 

 tion should be diluted with five parts 

 of water for spraying purposes. One 

 application should be given in the late 

 fall, as soon as most of the leaves have 

 fallen, and another in the following 

 spring, before the trees put out foliage. 

 If it is possible to give only one treat- 

 ment, the sprays should be used in the 

 fall. .\t this time many of the mites 

 have not yet gone to the bud scales, 

 but occur in the down covering the 

 voung wood, and hence are more easily 

 i<illed. 



Nothing is impossible; there are ways 

 which lead to everything, and if we had 

 sullicient will we should always have 

 sullicient means. — Le Rouchefoucald. 



Die when I ma>, I want it said of 

 me by those who know me best that I 

 always plucked a thistle and planted a 

 llower where I thought a llower would 

 grow. — .\braham Lincoln, 



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