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twenty per cent on rows sprayed twice. 

 These results also show that spraying 

 reduces the per cent of the disease, and 

 that two applications are more valuable 

 than a single spraying. 



In experiments in the Gish berry field, 

 1908, the Snyder blackberry plants which 

 were sprayed during 1907 were given a 

 single application of 4-4-50 bordeaux just 

 before the fruit began to turn from red 

 to black. The fruit was sorted on August 

 11, 14, 17, 30 and September 1. The per 

 cent of diseased fruit on sprayed plants 

 decreased from twenty-nine per cent to 



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twelve per cent, with an average of 

 twenty per cent, while the fruit on plants 

 that had not been sprayed gave an aver- 

 age of thirty-nine per cent diseased fruit, 

 varying from twenty-nine per cent to 

 forty-two per cent. In the inspection of 

 diseased berries it was also noted that 

 there were three times as many diseased 

 drupels on fruit which had not been 

 sprayed than the fruit which had been 

 coated with bordeaux mixture. While 

 late spraying reduces the disease such a 

 practice cannot be recommended, as indi- 

 cated by the above data. 



In experiments in the Paulhamus berry 

 field, 1908, blackberries of the Snyder 

 \-ariety were sprayed twice with 4-4-50 

 bordeaux. The first application was 

 made just before the flower buds opened 

 and the second when the fruit was about 

 the size of a field pea. Notes on the con- 

 dition of the fruit were first taken during 

 the fifth picking on August 15th. An 

 average of twelve boxes of each of 

 sprayed and unsprayed fruit was gath- 

 ered on August 15, 16, 19, 21, 33 and 

 September 3. After the first picking the 

 per cent of blighted fruit gradually 

 decreased from forty-two per cent to 

 eleven per cent. The average of diseased 

 fruit was twenty-three per cent. The 

 diseased fruit on plants that had not 

 been sprayed gave an average of forty- 

 six per cent diseased fruit. In this fruit 

 there was also a gradual decrease in per 

 cent of diseased fruit from sixty-one per 

 cent to twenty-seven per cent. 



As indicated by the data, bordeaux is 

 a valuable preventive against this disease. 



."Vgain, as has been pointed out above, 

 there was a marked difference in the 

 number of diseased drupels on sprayed 

 and unsprayed fruit. There was a much 

 larger per cent on the unsprayed fruit. 



In experiments in the Friedley-Clark 

 field, 1908, a few rows of the Lawton 

 blackberry were sprayed with 4-4-50 bor- 

 deaux, when the fruit began to change 

 from red to black. The berries were 

 inspected on August 10, 14 and 33. The 

 sprayed rows gave thirty-five per cent 

 diseased fruit, while the unsprayed rows 

 gave forty-nine per cent diseased fruit. 

 There was an increase of ten per cent in 

 the disease on unsprayed fruit during the 

 twelve days. 



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