CRICKET WILLOW
FOR MAKING HATS RAVAGES OF WATERMARK DHSTRUCTI VIS DISEASE VALUABLE TREES DESTROYED POSITION IN ENGLAND (Anst. and N.Z. Cable) lauidon, Ap-il 8. The opening of the 19”1 cricket ■season has revealed a remarkable position in the cricket bat Industry, due to the ravages of watermark, a disease which Is a bacterial affection au l which results in the ties'ruction of the willow trees worth from £2OO to £.'loo each. Willow growing in this country is practically confined to Hertfordshire anti Suffolk. Experiments in growing cricket willow elsewhere have been without result, the bats having no drive. Tile demand for bats is as great as ever and unless the blight is stoic pod the position promises to la' most difficult.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 6
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121CRICKET WILLOW Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 6
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