1338 Tue VecetasLte INpusTRy IN New York State 
taining resin sticker might be of value in preventing it. The 
disease usually appears only occasionally and then often not until 
late in the season. Crops are only occasionally noticeably short- 
ened. Present information does not warrant spraying. 
Fic. 393.— Onton SmuT; ALL DiskAsED Except THREE LARGEST 
PEA 
Blight (Mycosphaerella pinodes Berk. & Blox.). Fig. 394 
This disease causes marked losses in many localities where peas 
are extensively grown. Brown rotten spots appear on the stems 
of young plants and later dead spots develop in leaves and pods. 
The disease results from the attack of a fungus which lives over 
winter in the seed and in pea roots, stubble and straw. Practice 
