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of the state it lias been very serious during tiie past few 

 years causing- a loss of hundreds of dollars, it probably 

 will be serious again this season and we must plan to prevent 

 it. In sections where this trouble is serious there is not any 

 spraying, that will increase the value of the fruit so much 

 as the spraying to prevent this disease. But remember that 

 this disease starts late in the season and Ave must carry on 

 late sprayings in July or August in order to be able to suc- 

 cessfully prevent it. 



Probably the one disease that gave us iiie greatest 

 trouble this past season was the Baldwin Fruit Spot. It 

 did a great deal of damage in many sections of ine state, in 

 sprayed, as well as unsprayed orchards. This disease is not 

 an entirely new one in Massachusetts as reports have been 

 made of its presence in this state for the last six or seven 

 years. It is, however, I believe, the first season that we 

 have had such a serious out break and I am sure that we will 

 see it again next season and must be prepared to prevent it. 



The Brook's spot is a fungous disease, the spores of 

 which seem to become established and grow on the fruit 

 about the same time as the sooty fungous. The spots in 

 their first stage as w^e find them on early apples especially 

 are rather small and located generally around the blossom 

 end of the apple. Later we find on the winter fruit that 

 the spots are much larger and that they extend through the 

 skin a short distance into the apple causing a greenish 

 brown spot. This spot injures the ai)pearance of the fruit 

 greatly and thus the value, however as far as I have been 

 able to find out it does not to any great extent injure the 

 keeping quality of the fruit, when stored under, good con- 

 ditions. This disease may be prevented to a large degree 

 by spraying with a fungicide, as lime-sulfur or bordeaux 

 mixture, during the months of July ^and August. Two or 

 three sprayings should hold it in check. 



The apple scab seems to be wide spread and doing con- 

 siderable damage and if we expect to grow the Mcintosh 

 and other varieties that are subject to this disease, w^e must 



