SMUT FREE BARLEY
SUCCESSFULLY GROWN IN CANTERBURY. Dominion Special. Christchurch, December 17. Smut free barley has been produced on several areas in the Leeston district this season. The seed was treated by Mr. C. J. Neill, Government Field Mycologist, who subjected it to the hot water treatment. The areas sown in barlev totalled 501 acres. Fifty-three acres were sown in wheat and a few acres in oats The whole of the barley areas as far as examination has shown are absolutely free from smut, and to preserve them in that condition the Department of Agriculture, on tlie recommendation of the Board of Research, has purchased a new mill with winch to thresh the crops from these areas and from areas that will be similarly sown in the future. The hot water treatment has been known as an effective method for the past fortv years, but it is not a method which the individual farmer can adopt because the variation of one or two degrees in the temperature of the wnter matermiiv injures efennination. In the hands of an expert it is possible to treat the seed used in a district, and so clean up the whole country, district by district. The areas in Leeston on winch the smut-free barlev lias been produced have produced sufficient clean barley* to sow the whole of the areas in Canterbury usually devoted to barley.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 72, 18 December 1926, Page 5
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230SMUT FREE BARLEY Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 72, 18 December 1926, Page 5
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