FKUIT-TREE BLIGHT IN GENERAL. 



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Blight is a disease of plants that has of recent years at- 

 tracted considerable attention, especially to the fruit grow- 

 er, due to the fact that certain kinds of fruit trees have be- 

 come affected with this disease, which has spread each year 

 doing increasing harm. With the rapid yearly increase in 

 the number of fruit trees affected, together with the equally 

 rapid increase in the geographical area of distribution of 

 the disease, has come a wide spread interest in this subject 

 throughout the whole country. And this subject is at- 

 tracting attention more and more; and it has so increased 

 that it is now not confined to the fruit grower, but the farm- 

 er and even the general public have come to recognize this 

 disease as a most serious one. The fact that its exact na- 

 ture is not generally known, and the remedy perhaps even 

 less, has helped to increase the dread of it, and to allow 

 many to neglect their trees and permit them to die in conse- 

 quence. Hundreds of instances have come under my ob- 

 servation in this state where village people with a few fruit 

 trees, as well as farmers and even fruit growers, allow their 

 trees to go unattended to when the disease appears, and the 

 disease to increase and kill the trees and spread to others 

 unaffected. So great has been this sad neglect of trying to 

 check this disease, due no doubt to a want of information, 

 together with the great yearly financial loss due to it, that 

 this bulletin has been written with the sole purpose of giv- 

 ing to the public, and to the fruit growers and farmers of 

 this state in particular, a general knowledge of what is at 



