DISEASE IN TURNIPS.
MATTER FOR URGENT INQUIRY.
(Per Unitid P?.es3 Association.) 1 WELLINGTON, March 26. A serious turnip disease lus attacked the \ crops at Fcinndgc, near llaitcrton. On ] ono farm 16 acics of turnips were growing t {■VpnicntSy healthy in every lespccl, and a few days later the crowns of the turnip l ; i wore streaked with a form of black blight, . since when the whole ciap Ins rotted into i the ground. As showing the drastic nature f of the disease, turnips weighing fiom two 1 to fivo pounds wcro lcdueed to pulp in a 6 : many days. <
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13862, 27 March 1907, Page 2
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99DISEASE IN TURNIPS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13862, 27 March 1907, Page 2
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