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on hands or clothes. In the growing season the usual 

 sprayings for the rots are also favorable for keeping down 

 the ravages of the anthracnose. 



The strawberry-leaf blight and mildew can be controlled 

 by spraying with Bordeaux mixture as soon as growth 

 starts in the spring and repeating it when the blossoms are 

 about to expand. If the diseases are well established it is 

 best to mow and lightly burn over the plantation after 

 picking-time. But some mow and rake the litter from the 

 ground before burning, as they believe the burning an 

 injury to the plants, which it is in a dry time. But when 

 the ground is moist we have noted no injury, even where 

 a light straw covering was given to assist in burning. 



The anthracnose of the raspberry is most easily attacked 

 by spraying with very strong solution of copper sulphate 

 before the leaves expand in spring, followed with the 

 Bordeaux mixture every two weeks until midsummer. 



But the writer's long experience favors the destruction 

 of plantations attacked by anthracnose or red rust and to 

 plant on fresh ground, if possible, where the plants are 

 sheltered from the direct sweep of the westerly winds. 



