Controlling the curculio, brown-rot, and scab in the peach belt of Georgia . der way in sections of the State where peaches havenever been grown commercially before (fig. 1). LOSSES FROM THE CURCULIO AND BROWN-ROT. The year 1920 will long be remembered by the Georgia grower asthe wormy-peach year. The losses to individual growers weretremendous, and an exceedingly low estimate of the damage by thecurculio to the 1920 Georgia peach crop as a whole is placed at$2,000,000. According to the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimatesof the United States Department of Agriculture, only 5,663 carloadsof pe
Controlling the curculio, brown-rot, and scab in the peach belt of Georgia . der way in sections of the State where peaches havenever been grown commercially before (fig. 1). LOSSES FROM THE CURCULIO AND BROWN-ROT. The year 1920 will long be remembered by the Georgia grower asthe wormy-peach year. The losses to individual growers weretremendous, and an exceedingly low estimate of the damage by thecurculio to the 1920 Georgia peach crop as a whole is placed at$2,000,000. According to the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimatesof the United States Department of Agriculture, only 5,663 carloadsof peaches were shipped from the State in 1920 in contrast with10,559 carloads in 1921. Many more peaches were produced inGeorgia in 1920, but they were rendered unmarketable by the peach crop of 1919 was also a partial failure, owing to combined Control of the Curculio. etc., in Georgia. injury by the curculio and brown-rot. The shipments for the seasonof 1919, as reported by the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates,were 7,236 carloads. GEORGIA SCLl STATUTE MILCS. Fig. 1.—Outline map of Georgia showing, in solid black, old peach belt; in dotted areas,sections where new plantings are being made. The great abundance of the curculio in Georgia during 1920 canbe attributed directly to the careless and inefficient control measurespracticed by the growers during preceding years. The progeny ofa number of generations of the curculio, not satisfactorily controlled, 6 Department Circular 216, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. had been multiplying for several years. During these years somegrowers failed to spray, and the careless spraying of others wasworthless. Very often the entire spraying crew rode on the tank(fig. 2) and the team was kept walking from one end of the orchardto the other, no stops being made as the trees were passed. In manycases the spraying was left entirely in the hands of incompetent laborwith no supervision. With such careless control measures the severecurc
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