POTATO BLIGHT.
THK DRYJNO PROCESW FOR SEED. After having conducted a test of the drying process in stamping out Irish blight in potatoes on a small ecale at his laboratory, the Victorian (Jovermnent Pathologist (Mr. MeAJpine) caused a large plot of land at Burnley Horticultural (Junlens to be planted with potatoes iteit had been subjected to a temperature of between 120 and 1.'50 degrees. One-eighth of an acre was used in the experiment. Half was planted with potatoee that had been subjected to the drying process; and the other half with potatoes that had not been beated. The potatoes that had been under a temperature of 1-0 degrees are growing equally as well a.s the others, and the results of the tewt are regarded a«s very satisfactory evidence of the efficacy of the drying process in free-ing potatoes from Irish blight. It is proposed, states the "'Sydney Telegraph, that the Agricultural Department build a. small travelling kiln a.t a cost of about £200, and that, an officer of the department superintend the curing of potatoes in the fur-
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 243, 13 October 1910, Page 2
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