THE COUNTRY'S CROPS.
TURNIPS : TROUBLED IN THE SOUTH. All • tho official information that is' now reaching:;the Government as to the growth of crops in various parts of the Dominion is good. The only qualification to bo noted is the provalenco of moth, aphis, and phoma- .in the [.turnip crops of Canterbury arid of; Taieri- in- Otago.' Southern farmers havo lately been' urging Government to investigate these, blights, in tho hopoof more effectively' controlling them, and .it seems that/ there [is "good need of: some such' work if turnip' growing is/to be 1 continued. Possibly. I)r. Cockayne's,, ■ plant-breeding work will give. the .desiral relief.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 3
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103THE COUNTRY'S CROPS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 3
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