. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). 1744 Report of Farmers' Institutes mite galls are noticeaLly elevated. The galls also show one or more tiny openinos — the tunnels or hnrrows made hy the mites on entering and leaving the leaf. Upon the npper and lower sur- faces of leaves, the mite-infested spots are brown, and are generally distributed about the base and margins of the leaf. The mites also injure the fruit and fruit stems, the evidences of their work show- ing at first as light-green pimples, which may later change to blister-like spots o
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ... Agriculture -- New York (State). 1744 Report of Farmers' Institutes mite galls are noticeaLly elevated. The galls also show one or more tiny openinos — the tunnels or hnrrows made hy the mites on entering and leaving the leaf. Upon the npper and lower sur- faces of leaves, the mite-infested spots are brown, and are generally distributed about the base and margins of the leaf. The mites also injure the fruit and fruit stems, the evidences of their work show- ing at first as light-green pimples, which may later change to blister-like spots or pock marks. The mites spend the winter in the buds, usually under the second and third layers of bud scales. They frequently collect in colonies of fifty or more in little depres- sions in the scales and are more or less concealed and protected by the j)ubescence of the buds. As the buds burst, the mites move to the unfolding leaves in which thev burrow and establish new colonies. In October the mites abandon the leaves and hide in the Fig. 140. The Work oi- Blister ]Mite ox Apple Foliage Treatment.— Tliis ])est is etficiciitly coinbated l)y spi-ayiug the trees in the spring before the leaves appear with the lime-sulphur mixtui'c. The concentrated lime-sul])hur solution should be diluted iu I he proportions of one gallon of the solution testing 32 to 34° B. to ten or twelve gallons of water for the treatment of the mite alone; but if tlie scale is present on the trees the sjn-ay should bo stronger, one gallon to eight or nine gallons of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture; New York State Agricultural Experiment Station; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Albany : State of New York, Dept. of Agriculture
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