CELERY 1467 
CONTROLLING BLIGHT 
By spraying, celery blight can be controlled under all weather 
conditions, but the spraying must be done in the most thorough 
way and started when plants are young in the seed beds. I have 
seen growers applying bordeaux with a sprinkling can. They 
were wasting time and money, and damaging the crop. When 
bordeaux is applied with a sprinkling can or any other kind of 
a machine that does not make a very fine spray under a high pres- 
sure, the mixture will form in large drops on the foliage of the 
plants and run down the stalks, lodging at the root of the plant, 
as a result of which the consumer will find a large amount of 
vitriol in the celery. There are cases pending in courts now in 
which the health department claims celery was offered for sale 
that was unfit for use— the result of careless spraying. Even if 
the growers escaped paying this fine they have not helped the con- 
sumption of celery through their careless acts. Celery can be 
sprayed every week through the entire season and yet when har- 
vested not have a trace of bordeaux show between the stalks of 
the plant next to the roots. But the mixture must be applied in a 
fine mist and under a high pressure. 
IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY 
The future prosperity of the celery industry depends on the 
quality grown, conditions when shipped, and method of distribu- 
tion. I have made this a study. for some years and am sorry to 
say that a great number of New York State growers seem to care 
little about quality. They want something that will give them 
the largest number of crates per acre. 
A few words on the condition of celery and the way it is being 
sent to the market. Every celery grower in the East and South 
can learn from the California grower how to put up celery so as 
to have it appear at its best. California celery appears better 
than any other when it arrives on the market. This is not due 
to the fact that the celery is better than that grown in other sec- 
tions. There is no section in this country that can grow a better 
stalk of celery than can be grown in New York State. 
If we stop to examine the California celery to learn why it 
shows up so well after being in transit five or six times as long as 
our shipments are, we will find that every defective leaf has been 
