THE KANSAS PEACH. 



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our coats off laboring with it as a fungous disease. We have kept 

 all the dead wood trimmed out, and sprayed them early with sulphate 

 of copper and later with Bordeaux mixture, with no perceptible dif- 

 ference. We had a first-class apparatus for apjjlying these remedies, 

 and applied them with the hope of curing the disease; but, as I said, 

 we are taking them out now, and have become a little discouraged 

 with another block, located some distance away, that is four years 

 old and affected with these little brown spots in the bark that Mr. 

 Tucker speaks of. 



I think that all of these orchards, which are similarly affected, will 

 give evidence in the future of worse symptoms than dead siDots in the 

 new growth, unless there is a remedy found. 



BLACK SPOT ON PEACHES. 



This fungus is quite common over the state, mostly affecting late 

 varieties, more especially on seedling fruit. It first appears as black, 

 sooty-like spots of varying size, generally on one side of the specimen, 

 often covering one entire side of it. 



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Fig. 18. Black spot of peach ( Hill's Chili ). 



The side becomes dwarfed, the skin becomes hard, and .shrinks and 

 cracks open sometimes to the stone, and the flesh on the affected side 

 is useless, and the whole fruit valueless for market and of little value 

 for family use. Bordeaux mixture is the only thing known that will 

 hold it in check. The formula is four pounds of sulphate of copper 

 and six pounds of lime, diluted with at least fifty gallons of water, 

 and ajoplied with any of the spray pumps. 

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