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we can get. Even with united and unremitting zeal no more can he 
expected from orchard hygiene than would be anticipated from like 
efforts directed toward the extermination of a weed. With these pro¬ 
visos, it may be said that this method is full of hope. It is worth try¬ 
ing even if neighbors will not lend a helping hand, especially if other 
orchards are somewhat remote. Whether it will pay to struggle alone 
must depend on various contingencies, especially the price of fruit and 
the cost of labor. I am inclined to think it will, but this can be deter¬ 
mined only by actual trial. 
The proposed remedy is easy to put into operation. Every year when 
peaches are being picked a little additional labor would suffice to re¬ 
move all the rotted and rotting peaches. The earlier this is begun 
the more secure will be the varieties next in order of ripening. More¬ 
over, if at any time during the season a hot or rainy spell supervenes, 
and the fruit shows a tendency to rot before it is ripe, men should be 
put into the orchard immediately with instructions to remove every trace 
of rotting fruit. The same trees must be gone over again the next day, 
or the day after at furthest, so as to secure and remove all freshly 
rotted fruits, 24 to 36 hours being ample time to develop incipient cases 
not noticeable on the first gathering. The work must be done very 
quickly and very thoroughly in order that the rotting fruits may be re¬ 
moved and buried before the spores appear upon their surface to scat¬ 
ter destruction everywhere and undo all that has been done previously. 
Finally, in the late autumn, after the leaves have fallen, the entire or¬ 
chard should be re-examined and all dried peaches lying on the earth 
or still clinging to the branches should be scrupulously removed and 
buried or burned. 
I have so much confidence in the ultimate success of this method that 
I can not too earnestly' urge its practice upon peach growers. If it were 
followed systematically for a series of years I believe the loss from peach 
rot would be reduced to inconsiderable proportions. This granted it is . 
unnecessary to enlarge upon the resulting benefit to growers. 
In regard to fungicides there is yet little to be said. Some experi¬ 
ments designed to preserve the fruit while on its Avay to market have 
been made by vaiious growers. These indicate a possibility of delay¬ 
ing the decay some days by dipping into harmless sulphur compounds, 
e. </., solutions of liver of sulphur, or of sulphur and cooking soda, and 
drying before packing into baskets for shipment. As an experiment, 
dry sulphur might also be dusted on the gathered fruit. All these 
methods are open to objection on the double score of cost and uncer¬ 
tainty. It is possible also that the spraying of some fungicide upon the 
trees and fruit will be found efficacious, but up to this time no fungicidal 
treatment appears to have been worked out to any satisfactory conclu¬ 
sion. Yon Tluimen recommends the repeated dry dusting of trees and 
fruit with sulphur, beginning in July. This might possibly answer the 
purpose, but the expense involved would be very considerable. So far 
