Accidental Cure
LIChV by accident a control for a * * particularly bad disease in wheat hud been discovered was related by Mr G. Gibbs, a member of the staff of tlie plant research station at Palmerston North, at the monthly meeting of the Manawutu brand) of iho Royal Society. ... The disease, a smut, was so bad that it would have stopped the milling of any flour, he commented. Tim control was found when a wheat ship was wrecked on the coast ol: Ireland and sacks of wheat washed upon the shore wore used by the farmers for seed. They, noticed that resulting crops were free from snuft, whereas all Other' crops wore affected, and 1 so discovered that the disease could lie controlled by treating the seed with a btine.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 13
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129Accidental Cure Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 13
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