1338 The Vegetable industry in New Yoke State 



taming 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. 



Fig. 393. — Onion Smut; All Diseased Except Three Largest 



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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 



