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sometimes it splits the cane and looks very much as it does 

 when two canes rub together, but the white spots are the 

 first things to look for. 



A MEMBER : How does it affect the foliage and tlie 

 fruit? 



MR. AIKEN : T have never noticed that it affected the 

 jruit. We have had it two years, and when it got started 

 we cut out everything in sight and we have not seen it 

 since, so we have not had as much chance to study it as we 

 might have. 



A MEMBER : Two or three years ago I sent a sample 

 to Amherst and they thought it might be that or something 

 else, but the foliage sort of curled and turned an off color, 

 and some of the berries,, after they set, would begin to 

 iiarden and a few would turn red, and I lost Cjuite a lot. 



j\IR. AIKEN: Did this happen over the field generally? 

 A MEIMBER .- No, mostly on two rows. I had one short 

 row that I was setting out 50 long; it is nearly gone now, 

 and the other rows are starting. Starting at one end. 

 though you will find it occasionally through the row, but 

 principally on one end. 



MR. AIKEN: Are those black caps? 

 A MEMBER : No. they are Cuthberts. 

 MR. AIKEN : I should sooner believe that the red spider 

 got into those leaves. I don't think it is anthracnose. 



A MEMBER: The only thing I could find on the leaves 

 was some of these very .small white flies, about as big as the 

 head of a pin. I could not satisfy myself that that was the 

 cause of it. 



PROF. "WOLFE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE : I will say 

 that in our plantings at the State Farm we had very similar 

 trouble this summer. We had our entomologist examine 

 the leaves carefully, and he found that the trouble was the 

 red spider. 



THE CHAIRMAN: Do you know any treatment for this 

 trouble ? 



PROF. WOLFE: No. the standard treatment I think 



