the present time known to biologists in regard to the na- 

 ture and cause of the disease, and of the remedies to be 

 used to combat it and to prevent its spreading to unaffected 

 trees and areas. 



The blight is at present more common in the northern 

 part of the State. A fruit grower from that locality who 

 depends almost exclusively upon his fruit trees for a living, 

 states that his apple trees are so badly affected with blight 

 that he has lost nearly his entire crop and a large percent- 

 age of the trees. One can readily see what the disease 

 blight means to such a citizen. While attending farmers' 

 institutes in various parts of the state this past summer, I 

 had a good opportunity to observe the effect and extent of 

 this blight ; and it was sickening to note the great amount 

 of damage and loss by it, not only of this years' crop, but of 

 the trees themselves; and what is still more, to note the 

 neglect, which must result in the great increase and spread 

 of the disease next year. It is to be hoped that all who 

 read this bulletin will take every precaution themselves and 

 inform their neighbors on this subject; and let all work to- 

 gether to greatly lessen, if not auuibilate this, the worst of 

 all plant diseases. 



The different kinds of plants that are subject to the at- 

 tack of the disease — blight — is very great ; and it is by no 

 means confined to fruit trees, but even shade and forest 

 trees are subject to it. In some localities in the northern 

 part of this state, I have observed the oak trees affected to 

 such an extent, that with certain species, it was almost im- 

 possible to find one perfectly healthy, and as a rule the en- 

 tire tree was more or less diseased. Fortunately this seems 

 at present to be confined to a few localities only, but one of 

 these is at least five miles in diameter. Should this blight 

 increase as it seems certain to do, we may in a few years 

 have an even greater problem to contend with than that of 

 our fruit trees. 



