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REMOVE REFUSE FRUIT FROM
REACH ORCHARDS
Cureulio and brown-rot are evi
dently under better control at the
present time in Georgia peach or
chards than at any time since 1918.
This should he a special incentive for
growers to enforce orchard sanita
tion practices in order to assist iri
preventing these pests from accumu
luting again, and orchardists are urg
ed to give this matter immediate at
tention. After the (ricking <rew
strip an orchard many peaches can
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usually he found on the ground un- |
der the trees, and often a few are
left on the trees which the pickers
have missed. If this fruit is allowed
to stay in the orchards indefinitely
brown-rot sources of infection may
be established and excellent breeding
quarters also created for a second
generation of the cureulio. In tbi.-'
way the cureulio population may be \
increased late in the season to attack
the succeeding crop, and furthermore ,
when the fruit decays arid mummifies
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1025.
in the orchards a dangerous source
brown-rot infection is set up for
next crop, as it is the mummies
the previous year which are
responsible for blossom blight
occurs in the sprin*
Immediately upon the
of peach harvest the trees should
stripped of all fruits which the
erH have missed, and this together
w j^ a jj 0 f f ru j t on the ground
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should be hauled out and destroyed
by burying with quicklime at lea3t
two feet below the soil surface
The prompt and proper disposal of
refuse fruit from peach orchards is
a matter of vital importance in safe
guarding the industry in the future,
anf l peach growlers should give spe¬
cial attention to this program of
orchard sanitation.
Government and State Laboratory,
Fort Valley, Georgia.
Issued 1925.
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