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June 28, 1944 



Prepared by -yie Fruit Program Committee 

 of the Extension Service 



VT. H. Thies, Extension Horticulturist 



Contents 



X-Disease Control 



Notes on Fruit Insects 



Seen and Heard in Maine 



Grass 



Fruit and Nut Crop Prospects 



Orchard Sites as Related to Freeze of May 19 



Summer DN Bums Out Scab Spots 



More on Blossom Thinning Sprays 



First Year Training of Grape Vines 



X-DISEASE CONTROL 



It is time to get after the chokecherries arox^nd peach orchards 

 or prospective peach sites. Eliminating the chokecherries is the only 

 known method for the control of X-disease, or yellow-red virosis, of peaahos. 

 This disease is known to be carried as far as 200 feet. Fop safety, choke- 

 cherries should be eliminated for a distanpe of 500 feet. 



Chokecherries are best eliminated by the use of a weed killing 

 spray. Such sprays are carried from the leaves into the roots and thus 

 kill the whole plant. Treated in this way, there is no crop of suckers 

 to deal with, as would follov/ mowing or attempts at digging them out. 



Issued by the Extension Service in furtherance of Acts of May 8 and June 30, 

 1914, Vfillard A. Munson, Director, Massachusetts State College, Unii-ed^^fcwfew^ 

 Department of Agriculture, and County Extension Services cooperating. 



