AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS 



remains in the soil and no amount of spraying will avail. 



The only known remedy is to cultivate a resistant variety of 



cotton or to rotate the 

 crop. 



The Fruit Mold. Fruit 

 mold, or brown rot, often 

 attacks the unripe fruit 

 on the tree, and turns 

 it soft and brown and 



FIG. 103. MOLDY PEACHES 



finally fuzzy with a coat of mildew. 

 Fig. 103 shows some peaches 

 thus attacked. Often the fruits 

 do not fall from the trees but 

 shrivel up and become "mum- 

 mies" (Fig. 104). This rot is one 

 of the most serious diseases of 

 plums and peaches. It proba- 

 bly diminishes the value of the 

 peach harvest from fifty to 

 seventy-five per cent. It can be FlG I04 PEACH MuMMIES 

 largely prevented by spraying 



the tree several times with the Bordeaux and other 

 mixtures. 



