Potato Disease. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 9

Potato Disease. TO THE EDITOR.

Sie,— T remember the potato di=ease in Ireland in 1544 and the following year. 1 have not seen any of tho present trouble, but from what I have read about it it is not the disease- termed IrUh disease. At that time you would see your potato field green and beautiful at night, and in the morning the smell from it would be unendurable. There would bo no warning of brown or black spots on the leave 3, but about the centre of the stem there would be abotit 3in of a glasw coloured length, and it would break, if bent, quite easily, while the part above and below would be- rather tough, and the tops black and slimy. Hoping the New Zealand di=ea=& will soon cease, — I am, etc., Gore, March 9. John Ballixtins. The first of the new season's wheat v/ 31 offered at Invorcargill on Saturday. :1: 1 lie sample wps of the velvet variety, and "nas in very good condition. The Wyndham Herald report* rhai^a good deal of crop was laid by the rain on Sunday. Tho Taieri Agiicultural Ptcicry lias drcided to endorse the set ion of the Huwke's Eay A. and P. Soci-;v 111 mgh:<? tht- Government to have sleuli'sinj woiks erected in the colour..