CRICKET BAT INDUSTRY
‘ ‘ WATER-MARK ’ » UISEASE.
(Received 9.30 a.m.) . . LONDON, April 8.
The opening of the 1931 cricket season has revealed a remarkable position in the cricket bat industry, dud to the ravages of "water-mark” disease, which is a bacterial affection! causing death to willow trees worth' £2OO to £3OO each.
The willow-growing country is practically confined to Hertfordshire and Suffolk. Experiments in growing cricket willows elsewhere have been without results, the bats having no’ drive.
The demand for bats is as great as ever, and unless the blight is. Stopped the position promises to be mosr'difih* cult. . .
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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1931, Page 5
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97CRICKET BAT INDUSTRY Northern Advocate, 9 April 1931, Page 5
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