WHITE BLIGHT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10163, 13 February 1911, Page 3

WHITE BLIGHT.

AN ELECTIVE REMEDY./ I The Horowhenua Chronicle reports j that, after- some years of patient study and investigation, Mi\; W. \H. Taylor, orchard superintendent <at the Weraroa . Experimental . Farm, has discovered a most effective, remedy for the treatment of white blight. When this treatment is judiciously advertised, it is more than likely to be adopted by all orchardists in the Dominion,. and from what a Chronicle reporter was '. able to see, it is quite probable the Government itself will give the remedy, its approval. Mr Taylor paints the affected part—in .winter time only—with'red oil, '.which is made into an emulsion. The emulsion consists of one gallon of oil, half a gallon of water, and one pound of soft soap. , This is diluted about forty times with water for spraying purposes, but. Mr Taylor uses the emulsion without any adulteration, and applies it to the whorls with a small brush. Previous to this he had tried castor oil, and other remedies, but none proved really effective. They did not exterminate the insect. The emulsion now in use thoroughly exterminates the insect. To test its reliability a few trees have been treated by the (ordinary spray, and these are affected by the white blight. ■ln every other case there is' not one particle of blight to be seen, and this in spite of the fact that no spraying has been done on the trees this year. The pear, apple, and plum trees are .literally weighed down with a profusion of fruit; '