anaheim-gazette 1907-11-07

CALIFORNIA PEACH BLIGHT By Ralph E. Smith, assisted by E. H. Smith, T. F. Hunt and B. J. Jones. Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley. The disease which forms the subject of this bulletin has come to be a well-known factor in peach-growing in practically every part of California where the fruit is extensively grown. While its general occurrence has been experienced only during the past few seasons, the disease has become so abundant and its effects so extremely disastrous that almost every peach-grower has come to know it and see the necessity of finding some immediate preventative treatment in order to save his trees from actual destruction. The present publication aims to present the results of three years' experience and experimentation in the control of this trouble, showing the almost absolute success with which the disease has been controlled by treatment. The work has been unusually satisfactory in this respect, and it has apparently been fully demonstrated that by proper attention the grower can fully protect his trees and crop from the effects of the blight at a minimum cost. Peach "blight" has been so frequently and fully discussed and described in our horticultural journals and meetings during the past two years that it seems scarcely necessary to consider in detail the nature and history of the disease at this time from the twigs, originating in dead spots and buds. The ming was extremely abundant weather all over the one-fruiting twigs of affected trunk with the blighted leaves and spotted, leafless, dead twigs and shoots, gave the most distressing and alarming pearance. The crop was ruined in badly affected trunk and the trees brought into tremely weakened condition. This describes, in a general sense, the nature of this disease readily distinguished from any peach trouble by the features it had. It is essentially a very early spring disease of the twigs, the one-year-old wood, the valuable part of the tree growth becomes killed all the tree, except in the very very serious loss and injury. Most of the infection takes place in the winter, before the new starts, on twigs which were free from the trouble at of the growing season the fall. The new fruit becomes defected to some extent, but no critical damage is done by the buds and whole two period previous to the development of fruit. During 1905 and 1906 there occurred in greater abundance pearing in all the peach sections. Santa Clara county the Southern California petitions were the last affected, blight now occurs in both Peach "blight" has been so frequently and fully discussed and described in our horticultural journals and meetings during the past two years that it seems scarcely necessary to consider in detail the nature and history of the disease at this time. So unusually sudden and pronounced have been the effects of the trouble in practically all the peach-growing sections, and so widely have methods of control been demonstrated and urged upon the growers by agents of the experiment station and others, that we have no plant disease in the state which is better known or for which control methods are more generally applied than this. This disease appears to have been present in the state for some time. Professor Pierce records it as occurring previous to 1900, and some growers recognize the trouble as one with which they have been familiar for a number of years. It was in the spring of 1904, however, that the blight began to attract much attention. The injured condition of many trees at that time was very evident. This was particularly the case in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Suisun valleys. A spotting, gumming, and death of the buds and twigs particularly on the lower part of the trees, appeared in some abundance at that time. The winter of 1905 was a very wet one, and the blight increased greatly that spring. By the middle of February, 1905, it was evident in many places that a fresh infection had taken place and the growers began very generally to see the necessity of finding means of controlling this new disease. Since another even more serious orchard disease, the pear blight, was making its first appearance in much of the same territory at the same time, the peach attention the grower can fully protect his trees and crop from the effects of the blight at a minimum cost. During 1905 and 1906 there occurred in greater abundance pearing in all the peach sections. Santa Clara county the Southern California petitions were the last affected, blight now occurs in both The losses occasioned by them have been enormous, partici价the seasons above mention climatic conditions were par favorable and little was to check the disease. Indeed truthfully be said that in the mer of 1906, after two yeariative prevalence of the blight peach orchards of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, the commercial acreage of thi would have been in an alruined and unproductive o without some means of chec disease. The trouble was a in every orchard, all variety more or less affected, and ther growth, which in the peach the fruit, had been almostpletely killed and further ment prevented. With these unchecked peach-growing parently at an end. CONTROL OF THE BLIGHT Most fortunately, under serious conditions, there evidence almost from the fhe disease could be suc controlled. When, in 1904 the blight began to be enough to attract notice, it dent to all who observed thi closely that the usual pre peach spraying in February March was too late to chetion by this disease. Twi were sound and healthy in ber were found to be spot infection by the first of H Even with the heaviest a thorough spraying with mixture, or lime, salt and applied at the usual time. By the middle of February, 1905, it was evident in many places that a fresh infection had taken place and the growers began very generally to see the necessity of finding means of controlling this new disease. Since another even more serious orchard disease, the pear blight, was making its first appearance in much of the same territory at the same time, the peach trouble was considerably overshadowed for the time. The writer first became familiar with the disease as a serious matter in the fall of 1904, since which time the matter has been under observation and experiment by the station to a considerable extent, culminating in the general campaign of control in the fall of 1905. The blight was extremely prevalent in the spring of 1906, and somewhat less so, but still very destructive indeed in 1907. The large acreage of peaches which received timely spraying previous to the latter season rendered the effects of the disease much less noticeable. In the unusually wet spring of 1905, it was noticed generally in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and other valleys that peach trees were affected to an alarming extent with some unusual condition. The trouble consisted in the dying of the buds on the fruiting wood, spotting of the green twigs, and dropping or non-development of the young leaves and fruit. Particularly noticeable, and the most prominent feature of the disease, was a copious "gumming," or exudation of masses of gelatinous sap closely that the usual peach spraying in February March was too late to check by this disease. Twice were sound and healthy in ber were found to be spotted infection by the first of I Even with the heaviest thorough spraying with mixture, or lime, salt and applied at the usual time, ming produced by the blight be found breaking out through the spray coating affected twigs, and the disease checked in the least by the tion. Knowing the cause disease to be a parasite fungi with this habit of midwinter and development suggest the experience of 1904 and idea became quite general fall of 1905 that spraying in ber would be the most p time for successful control disease being new, and the son of 1905 an exceptionally majority of the growers hope that the blight we occur again as before and unusual means for its control in the Suisun valley, and a few in the San Joaquin elsewhere, sprayed their December, and when the ve development of the disease in February, 1906, the resu most complete and striking ing in general that one t spraying early in December Bordeaux mixture absolut twigs, originating in the trees and buds. This gum-extremely abundant in wet all over the one-year-old twigs of affected trees, and well-lighted leaves and fruit dead, leafless, dead or dying shoots, gave the tree a pressing and alarming apocalyptic The crop was entirely badly affected orchards trees brought into an ex-weakened condition. Describes, in a general way, one of this disease. It is distinguished from any other disease by the features menit is essentially a winter or long disease of the fruiting one-year-old wood which is able part of the tree. This becomes killed all through except in the very top, and thus loss and injury result. The infection takes place in early before the new growth twigs which were healthy from the trouble at the end of growing season the previous new fruit becomes af-some extent, but the prin-cage is done by the killing buds and whole twigs at a previous to the development 1905 and 1906 the disease in greater abundance, ap-nal all the peach-growing Santa Clara county and eastern California peach sec- the last affected, but the new occurs in both regions. vented the disease. After December results were not so good, and gradually deteriorated up to February, from which time on sprayed trees were no better than unsprayed in respect to this disease. One orchard, sprayed mostly in December, but finished out late in January, showed a decided difference in the two portions. Spraying in December was perfectly successful; in January partially so, and in February and March without effect on this disease. The blight was so bad in unsprayed or late sprayed orchards, with the crop and foliage almost entirely gone, and all the growth on those sprayed in December perfect, particularly the lower, inner, blight-susceptible fruiting twigs, that one seldom sees so striking a contrast in the treatment of any plant disease. Abundant comparison was available between trees of the same variety, age, and condition. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. 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