DRY-ROT IN ROOT CROPS.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 133, 9 June 1927, Page 13

DRY-ROT IN ROOT CROPS.

A long series of investigations fet» K the control of dry-rot have been eajSM ried out by the Biological Laboratory^' and Mr. A. H. Cockayne (Director? o*l the Fields Division) stated at the laefcf meeting of the Board of Agricultwsi that they had been brought to an ■<?»« tromely satisfactory conclusion. He inte' timated that the initial presence of thqT disease in any crop had been shown! to be due to the use of disease-infeete<£-seed, and were the whole of "the swsdSL and turnip seed used in New Zealv;^. disease-free the disease would'be elimij'i mated within a single season. Pracia?,* cal methods for securing disease-freei,, seed, either by growing our require- • ments in New Zealand or purchasing.. from European.growers, only such seed ~ as is produced under the methods flti^fe . orated by these researches, should hi-^ easy of accomplishment. An extenttya , publication dealing with all phasei^pe,,, dry-rot is now in the Press, and shoulA be published within the course of few weeks. So soon as it is availably;European seed merchants will bo sbl^,, to set in operation the necessary ma^^ thods for the production of disease-fte^-" seed. ■'■ . ■'.'!..".'.

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