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COTTON ANTHRACNOSE.
Racantly th# cotton planters In soraa
paHs of Laurens and Dodge counties,
Georgia, hare been considerably
alarmed by the appearance of a rath
er serious trouble In their cotton fields.
Specimens of the Injured plants and
bolls which have been pent to the
Georgia Department of Agriculture and
and to the State ISntomologlrt, show
that the loss Is being caused by the
disease of aotton known ns "nnthrac-
nose.”
The appeamnce of this disease Is
most characteristic and is most com
monly noticed as It affects the bolls,
although It. does occur to some ex
tent upon both the loaves and steins
of the cotton plant.
The first sympton of the dlneaso up
on the bolls Is the appearance of small
rad specks or dots. These rapidly
enlarge in Ize with the result that the
part of the surface affected becomes
sunken and soon attains a blackened
color. These diseased areas are
usually ciroular or oval in form, but
as several spots frequently occur upon
a single boll, these areas, sooner or
later, unite so tha tlialf, or even more,
of tha boll Is affected. "Spores" are
•ooa developed upon the blackened
iryk It may be well to explain heirs
that these "fungus” diseases as they
are termed, are caused by very low
forms of plant life—In reality vege
table organisms of a very simple
form. Like the higher typo of flower
ing plants with which we are all fa
miliar, there must be provided soma
mesne by which the plant Is propa
gated and spread Flowering plants
produce seeds, ead while It cannot be
truthfully said that the "fungous”
plants produce seeds, - yet fhey d®
produos spores which correspond In
their function to the seeds of the com
mon plants. These spores aro dlstrib-
ted by winds, insects, and in other
ways and germinate very much as do
seeds of grain or other plants, and
again start the> disease in a new
locality or upon another plant. As
stated above, the spores of the an-
thraonose, formed upon the blackened
areas of the diseased bolls, are color
less, but they become so abundant
upon these diseased areas that they
give the latter a grayish appearance.
It Is by means of these spores that
the disease Is spread from boll to boll
and from plant to plant In the cotton
fields.
The attack of the antliracnoae fun
gus oftentimes results In the boll's re
maining closed, aaid the lint within
falls to mature. At ofher times the
tip of the diseased boll will open up
■lightly; but In this case also the lint
falls to mature and the boll eventual
ly dries up, aoumlng a dark brown
color.
Strangely enough, the attacks of this
disease are often attributed to insects,
th ecotton planter believing that the
bolls have been “stung" by some vary
disease may continue to live in t
soil for some time, and thus re-lnfect
the following crop of cotton. In lo
calities where the anthracnose occurs,
therefore, cotton should not be plant
ed next year upon land that hes been
In cotton this year. In other words,
cotton should not. be placed upon th# 1
same piece of land two years in sue- ;
sion. This Is only a part, of the doc- |
trine of "rotation of crops." Were i
the farmer to always carry out a sys- ]
tematic rotation of crops, year after 1
year, In wbloh tho sains crop never j
succeeds Itself upon the same place ;
of land, his losse sfrom Insects and
disease would b egreatly reduced with
out any attending cost whatever, and
in addition the fertility of his soil
would be, conserved to much greater
advantage, thereby reducing hlu fertll-
izer bill.
The selection of the proper cotton
seed for planting in a locality where
anthracnose occurs, Is of tlm greatest
Importance. Two courses are open
In the selection of seed. One Is for
the planter to secure, for next year's
planting, cotton seed from a locality
where the anthracnose does not oc-
our, as It has been clearly shown the
the spores of this disease aTe often
times retained In the Unt upon the
■etM. and nre hence ready to Infect
the young plant as soon ms It breaks
opon the send-coat
The other course would bo for the
planter to carefully select reslstanl
eeed from the diseased areas upon his
own plantation. In almost every bad
ly diseased field a plant will be found
here and there which shows ao indica
tion of having been attacked by the |
anthracnose. This plainly Judicata* j
that there Is something about that In
dividual plant, that enables It to raalul
the disease successfully. If eeed b<
selected from this reel at ant plant, th-
plants grown from this seed will, to a
coniderahle extent, show the same re
sistance. Selection of seed can be
made from the most resistant of these
plunts the second season, and if this
systematic seed selection Is carried on
successfully for ft few years, the plant
er will have developed a strain oi
cotton resistant to anthracnose and
will have solved the problem at very
small expense.
In case the planter for any reason
does not carry out this plan of seed
selection he had becst be sure to ob
tal iibls cotton seed from some locali
ty where the anthracnose does not ex
ist. Such a locality may exist only
a few miles away and (luring the sum
mer and early autumn rs the time tho
planter should be looking about for
the source of his next year’s supply
of seed, and ho should now assure
himself by a personal examination
that the fields from which his seed la !
to come are free from this disease,
WILMON N19W15LJ..
State Hfotottologiafc.
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small an4 elusive Insect and Lhart 1
p-s only the effect of their "poison- j wa8 common a hundred
lug. ’ A# a matter of fact, Insects ~ . ,
are In no way responsible tor this years and mole ago. v e\eial o
trouble, and have «no connection with j those fjuainfc old buildings are still
It whatever aside from the possibility j c f t , n Europe. Tho Chapel of
«hat certain Ihsects may «“rry the | Lm ly S t iH sTivllds 0 n the* blidcre
spores of the disease upon their feet I •'
or beaks as they travel from one plant I which spans the Don at liottci-
to another.
This is a case In which the remedy
Is hard to apply, partly because of the
hature of the disease and also because
the morphology and life-htwtory of the
fungus causing the disease have not
been thoroughly worked out by scien
tists. An Intimate knowledge of all
stages of a disease or of the develop
ment of an Insect In most cases give*
a clew to how the disease or insect
may be successfully dealt with. This
very necessary Intimate knowledge of
Insects and diseases can only he ob
tained by careful and thorough scien
tific study, by using the highest power
microscopes and by observing the in
sect or disease in all stages of its de
velopment and existence, and noting
Its behavior upon different plants and
under differing climatic or weather
Conditions. Hence It Is t.hnt the sci
entific work proper along these lines
ia indirectly of tho greatest Impor
tance t.o the farmer.
At this season or the year (July, Au
gust and September) we know of
nothing the farmer can do to check
the cotton anthracnose, except that
possibly where the disease has not ob
tained much of a start, tho diseased
bolls could be carefully picked off
and burned up, thereby reducing the
crop of spores that will later sprrad
the destructive disease throughout
the entire field or plantation. Even
If this Is practiced, however, the an
thracnose fungus is likely to have ob
tained a start upon the leaf-scara and
Injured parts of the stems and It prob
ably could not be entirely eradicate!'
by This hand-picking method. In fact,
the practicability of this plan Is ques
tionable, but It Is the only plan that
ean be applied at this season of the
year, that offers any promise whatever
d success. Spraying the cotton fields
with some fungicide like Bordeaux
mixture for example, is Impracticable,
m Ihe fungus obtains a hold deep In
the tissues of the cotton plant, where
It cannot be reached by an application
of liquid or dust. Poison of all Kind*
Is ,of course, entirely useless against
a trouble of this kind.
In spite of all this, the planter can
take some very sensible steps towards
reducing the damage from this disease
another season. It seems highly prob
able that the fungus which causes this
dam. Tho little chapel was built
in the fifteenth century and was
restored about a hundred years
afro. For several years, however,
it Inis been used ns a tobacco shop.
G. H. McGuires
Store
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