1914 Virginia Rust Law Crop Pest Commission Circular Apple & Red Cedar Trees for Sale

1914 Virginia Rust Law Crop Pest Commission Circular Apple & Red Cedar Trees For Sale

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1914 Virginia Rust Law Crop Pest Commission Circular Apple & Red Cedar Trees:
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Title: Cedar Rust Law.
Series: Virginia State Crop Pest Commission, Circular No. 9.
Publisher: Virginia State Crop Pest Commission, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Publication Date: April, 1914.
Format: bifold circular.
Length: 3 pages
Size: approximately 5 1/2" by 8 1/2"
Description: An Act of the Virginia Assembly approved March 4, 1914. According to a 1928 issue of Virginia Law Review, “the growing of apples is one of Virginia's important industries. One of the plant diseases which is especially harmful to apple trees is known as the ‘orange’ or ‘cedar rust.’ Scientific investigation has brought out the fact that this particular disease requires for its development two different host plants, the red cedar and the apple. A cedar tree, becoming infected with the disease, gives off spores which are carried by the wind to apple trees in the vicinity. When an apple tree thus becomes infected the disease not only harms that particular tree but that tree in turn gives off spores which, if they reach another uninfected cedar, will infect that and thus start the process all over again. For the continued life of this parasite, the "cedar rust", both host plants are necessary or in other words if both cedar and apple trees do not exist in the same locality the disease will die out. With these facts in mind the Virginia Legislature in 1914 passed what is commonly known as the ‘Cedar Rust Law.’ ... It may be briefly summarized as follows: Cedar trees or trees which are or may be the source of the ‘orange’ or ‘cedar rust’, when located within one mile (now changed to two miles) of any apple orchard, are declared to be a public nuisance and are to be destroyed when the State Entomologist so orders.”
Condition: Toned and lightly foxed. Creased vertically. Light edge chipping.