CONTROL OF DRY ROT.
DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCHES RESULTS PROVE SATISFACTORY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Friday. That an entirely satisfactory conclusion had been reached in the long series of investigations into tho control of dry rot carried out by the biological laboratory of the Department of Agriculture was stated by Mr. A. H. Cockayne, director of the fields division of the department, at the last meeting of the Board of Agriculture. Mr. Cockayne said the initial presence of the disease in any crop had been shown to be due to the use of disease-infected seed, and were the whole of the swede and turnip seed used in New Zealand disease-free, the disease would be eliminated within a single season. Practical methods for securing diseasefree seed, either by growing our requirements in New Zealand or by purchasing from European growers only seed as :s produced under tho methods elaborated by these researches, should be easy of accomolishment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19660, 11 June 1927, Page 14
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