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STRAWBERRY LEAF SPOT AND FRUIT ROT 



Growers can get a head start in the control of leaf spot and fruit rot for 

 the coining year by applying a dormant spray this fall. The objective is to re- 

 duce the amount of disease that winters over so that there will be less disease 

 to infect new growth. In repeated experiments, it has been found that dusts and 

 sprays applied in the bearing year have given considerably better control of leaf 

 spots and fruit rots when a dormant spray has been applied than when there was no 

 dormant spray. 



The materials for dormant sprays are Liquid Lime Sulfur, 2% gallons to 100 

 gallons of water (7 tablespoonfuls to 1 gallon) or the organic mercuries used to 

 eradicate apple scab, at the strength recommended on the label for apple scab. 



The fall application should be made when the plants are dormant and about 10 

 days or a week before the winter mulch is put on. For good eradication, all parts 

 of the strawberry plant need to be wet with spray. This cannot be done through 

 a mulch. 



Where no winter mulch is used, the dormant spray may be put on in the spring. 

 It must be before soft tender growth starts if injury is to be avoided. 



"-C. J. Gilgut 



Extension Plant Pathologist 



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CIDER NOTES 



Another cider season is here. Are you ready for it? Many of you readers 

 have been making cider for a number of years, yet do things around the cider mill 

 the same way that you did in years past. Have you ever taken time to look close- 

 ly at your sanitation program, your method of operation, and your selling techniques? 

 Are there improvements that you could make in the mill itself? Are your drains 

 clean and working? Do the floors slope to the drains? Are your windows and doors 

 fly-proof? Is the mill as neat and bright as you can make it? Do you carefully 

 clean the mill after each days pressing? Or do you just hose it down? Look in 

 many of the nooks and crannies and other spots where pomace can get caught. These 

 are all breeding spots for fruit flies. Have you changed your method of selling? 

 Are you using glass or cartons? Do you ever run a cider special? Many items can 

 be changed for the betterment of your business. Occasionally, look at the adver- 

 tlsments by retail stores to see how they sell certain items. Have you ever thought 

 of running a 1 cent sale? One unit for your regular price plus 1 cent more for 



