The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, April 13, 1910, Image 7
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J Farmers’ Union Department.
r lhis Deparment is intended for the use of the members of
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the Farmers’ l nion in this county and is open to their use
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CLEMSON EXTENSION WORK.
BY I). C. MOORING.
Assistant Professor of Horticulture.
Clemson College, S. C.
FIRE BLIGHT OR PEAR BLIGHT.
Fire blight or pear blight is a con
tagious disease caused by bacteria
4. Prevent soft, succulent growth.
5. Prune so as to form a good
frame on your tree and keep spurs,
sprouts, etc., off the mam limbs and
trunks.
b. Do not cultivate and fertilize
bearing trees excessively.
T. Select resistant varieties.
Plant in well drained soil.
(small germs). It affects pears, np-'f ty. There is no other generally
pies, quinces and many oth-v pome known remedy for blight than the
fruits. A tree affected by blight has above.
the appearance of having been burn- lo. f; e t your neighbors to do like-
ed, hence the name "fire blight." wise.
The blight affects b! ossom twigs,
foliage twigs, sprouts, -pickers,
limbs and fruits.
Blossom Twig Blight The first
FARMERS’ UNION DIRECTORY*
NATIONAL.
President —Chas £ Barrett, Union
City, Ga.
V ice-President—J E Montgomery,
Gleason. Tenn.
Secretary-Treasurer—R H McCul
loch, 11(5 1-2 W. Broad street, Texar
kana, Tex.
STATE
Perrilt —
RUNS PLOWS WITH GASOLINE.
Spartanburg E. J. Foster of this
marked appearance of blight is dur- county harnesses up gasoline instead
ing and soon after blossoming time, of mules to break his stiff clay .land.
It is brought to the tree by insects ! A large portion of his land is nearly
level with a pretty hard red clay,
three to five inches below the top
seeking nectar, transferred by them
from 11 ossom to blossom and from
tree to tree. Warm moist conditions soil. He has been using two horse
are most favorable to its develop- 1 plows several years, and it looked as
ment. The effect is that the foliage if he was turning the earth upside
and flowers turn brown and the dis- down, but he w'as only plowing four
ease continues down the twig. Often or five inches deep, and the day was
the injury of blight is mistaken for not touched
that of frost, as the damage in each
instance is very much alike.
As soon as discovered the affected
portion, and even six to eight inches
below, should be cut off. After each
cut the knife or saw should be disin
fected.
Disinfectant—A bottle of mercuric
He bought a 12-Wsepower gaso
line engine and a gang plow with
three discs. He had to take one off
becuse his power was not sufficient
to puil the three, when they were
breaking about three inches of clay
and mixing it with the top soil.
With the two he is cutting 20 to 23
A. J. A.
Lamar. S. C.
E W Dabbs,
Mayesville.
J. Whitner
Columbia. U.
President,
Vice-President,
Reid Sec-Treas.
chloride or corrosive sublimate tab- inches going 7 to 8 inches deep. That
lets can be purchased at any drug is actual measurement, and no guess
store. Dissolve one tablet in a pint | work. He was'finishing up 50 acres
of water and a sponge saturated with’which will be ready for bedding
this solution rubbed over the knife when harrowed,
will disinfect it. Again it is well to He finds no trouble in running the
rub the sponge over the cut surface engine. The cost for gasoline and
for fear that your knife was not machine oil is about $2.50 a day.
thoroughly disinfected at tne time i With discs he can break up an
the cut was made. A five per cent, acre in three hours, or four acres in
solution of carbolic acid is another! a d a y 0 f P- hours. Three strong
good disinfectant. mules with a disc plow will break
Be sure and burn all affected parts. one acre in six hours or two acres in
irhich have been cut off and be care- a ( i a y.
ful with the disinfectants after yoO Mr. Foster proposes to exchange
have finished with them, as they are his engine fora 15-horsepower, so
poisonous. as to run the gang of three discs.
Li..ib Blight- The bacteria causing One hand is required to manage the
this disease affects the cambium layer i nac *hine, while another looks after
and inner bark. Tho bark becomes. 1 the plows. Of course they both ride. J
brown and sunken and thus it is if they get in a hurry the machine,
fairly easy to determine the affected can be run at night. A good head-
area. especially so if the activity of light would be required, and a good
the germs has ceased. The bacteria lamp that would show the discs all
winter in cankers on the limbs. Dur- * the time. Out west when they get
ing the fall and winter these cankers ’ i n a burry they work day and night,
are more easily and should be cut off using two sets of hands.
below the affected part. Thus you
see in case of large limb*'you lose a
good part of your tree. The cankers,
however, should be removed as soon
as detected, as they are apparently
the main source of new infection.
Preventing blight—Soft, succulent
growth is more susceptible to blight,
therefore anything that tends to pre
vent this growth will also tend to
prevent blight. • ^
As pears are borne on spurs which
are very apt to be blighted, the
spurs should be removed from the
trunk and main limbs for fear the
blight will get into the main portions
of the tree which would mean the
loss of the main limbs or Entire tree.
Sprouts or other soft growth should
be keoi off the main limbs and trunk.
WherAa pear tree is properly trained
the firs! few years heavy pruning
will not be necessary during its old r
age. Heavy pruning of old trees
during winter stimulates soft growth
which' s favorable to blight.
Cultivating and Fertilizing—Culti
vating and fertilizing with nitrogen
ous fertilizers after trees have come
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into bearing produce conditions fav
orable toi>light, therefore, sodding.
and withholding nitrogen fertilizers
is to be recommended as a prevent
ive measure from a farm orchard
standpoint.
Well Drained Soil—Plant on well
drained soil, but remember that all
rolling soil is not necessarily well
drained.
SUMMARY.
1. Cut off and bum all affected
parts.
2. Watch carefully for cankers on
your trees and when detected de
stroy them.
“ 3. Cankers cause the bark to be
come sunken and turn brown.
' A farmer who has not as much as
50 acres on which this machine could
be used should not buy ore unless he
can make it "pay for its keep," as
horsemen say, the year around. He
can use it for thrashing small grain,
ginning cotton, running a saw mill,
and cutting and grinding feed. It
will cost only 25 cents an hour to
run it. Such a machine would do
fine work m the level counties in the
eastern and middle part of the State.
Mr. Foster says that next year he
thinks he will be able to touch up
two more inches of the clay, and in
a few years he will have a soil of 12
inches instead of 5 as he has at pres
ent.
_ RAVENEL ITEMS-
Ravenel, April 4.—Last Tuesday a
very happy party of folks went as
Mr. C. F. Butler’s guests to a picnic
and fish fry at Berry Hill, a few
miles from here. Comfortable wag
ons conveyed them to a place where
a delightful luncheon and plenty of
fish were served. A number of tl e
party were newcomers from other
sections of the country, so to them
an outdoor picnic at this season of
the year was a delightful experience^
The part? broke up at Mr. Butler’s
where they went to drink the health
of the hostess, to whom they were
indebted for the day’s pleasure.
Miss Nora Garvin of Jacksonboro
is visiting relatives here this week.
"■Misses Daisy Cope and Mamie
Kennedy spent the week-end with
Misa Janie Postell at St. Paul’s.
J. M. P.
GHIIdrwn Cry
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CA3TORI A
COUNTY.
L. C. Padgett President. Smoaks.
J. D. Risher — Vice-president,
Round. S. C.
W. W. Smoak, Jr.—Sec-Treas.,
Walter boro. S. C.
S. P. Goodwin—County Business
Agent, Round.
W. W. Smoak, Jr—County Or
ganizer. ?
G. W. Sweat. Conductor.
Jos. Langdale, Chaplain, Weeks.
Executive Committee-Jno. O.
Jaques, Jr., Paul K. Crosby. S. J.
Patrick, C. F. Koger, A. C. Breland.
S. P. Goodwin. J. A. Willis, door
keepers.
Meeting 1st Saturday in each
I month at 10 a. m. at the courthonse.
LOCALS.
Ashton—J. T. Polk, president; T.
J. SirpmojiS, secretary-treasurer.
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Adnah—J B DuBois, presi
dent; Paul K. Crosby, secretary-
treasurer.
Bells—W. W. Bryan, president;
II W Hudson Jr secretary-treasurer.
Buck Head—J. A. Jones, presi
dent; A. D. Preveaux, secretary-
treasurer.
Bethel C. H. Breland, president; i
Allen Padgett, secretary-treasurer, j
Fuller-C.C. Crosby, president;:
B. J. Crosby, secretary-treasurer.
Island ton—W: M. E. Campbell,
president; C. R. Mears, secretary-
treasurer.
Hudson's Mill—J. D. Hudson,
president; H. A. Crosby, secretary-
treasurer.
Mt. Carmel—E>. B. Way, president;
G. M. Bennett, secretary-treasurer.
Maple Cane—J. F. Addison, presi
dent, J. EL Addison secretary-tress-
rer.
Sniders—W. C. Brant, president;
J. K. Getsinger, secretary-treasurer.
Hone Pen—Jos. Langdale, presi
dent; C. N. Langdale Sec-Treas.
Williams—Dr. C. EL Kinsey, presi
dent; J. F. O’Quin, secretary-treas
urer.
Tabor—C. B. Crosby, president;
W. H. Breland, secretary-treasurer.
Hendersonville—G. E. H. Moore,
president; O. A. Speights, secretary-
treasurer.
Stokes—W. F. Copeland, president;
J. B. Saunden, secretary-treasurer.
Dry Branch—J. J. Miley, presi
dent; J. L. Crosby, secretary-treas
urer.
Peniel—J. L. Hickman, president;
G. A. Blocker, secretary-treasurer.
Smoaks—L. C. Padgett, president;
A P Smith, secretary-treasurer.
Lodge—L. J. Jones, Sr., president;
P. M. Johns, secretary-treasurer.
WJdterboro—W. W. Smoak, Jr.,
president; E. W. Goodwin, secre
tary-treasurer.
EJdisto—A. G. Yarley, president;
S. J. Patrick, sxretary-treasurer.
Berea—D T Strickland, president;
James M Strickland, Jr, secretary-
treasurer.
Omega—H. P. Martin, prudent;
B R Griffin, secretary-treasurer.
Hall—B G Weeks, president; IJJ
Weeks, secretary-treasurer.
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NOTICE.
Books of sabscAptton to the capital
■took of the Farmcra* Warshonao Com
pany will ba opened at ths meeting place
•»f each local anion fiatnrday, April 9,
1W1U. J. D. Manor,
* J. O. Jaqsaa, Jr,
u B. B. GrtMa.
Corporators.
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LADIES AND MISSES TRIMMED
HATS AND LADIES COAT SOILS.
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