Tattered Leaves
rpHIS is one of four photographs, showing examples of hail damage to crops at the Crop Research Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at Lincoln, sent to “The Press” this week by Dr J. W. Sturrock, head of the agronomy section at the division. < This photograph shows the effect on rape leaves. The others were of damaged turnip leaves, young soya bean plants and young dwarf bean seedlings. Dr Sturrock, who took these typical samples from
i- his experimental crops a few s days after the storm on Janut ary 21, the full force of a which was not felt at the i-division, estimated that soya b beans had lost up to 25 per e cent and turnip and rape up r to 20 per cent of their leaf e areas. e This loss, he said, would be a set back to growth, and e although new growth was e manifest, the effect of the r- damage on the incidence of n disease and yield had yet to n be seen. The photograph was taken kby Mr C. J. Miles of the n division.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31908, 8 February 1969, Page 8
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