TREATING SCABBY POTATO SEED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 136, 1 August 1911, Page 7

TREATING SCABBY POTATO SEED

The potato-growing season being at hand, in the early districts, the experience; of Mr E. H. Stanton, of Tambas Springs (Queensland), in growing potatoes from seed badly affected with scab, should he of value. The seed in question was so badly diseased that he intended using it for pig-feed, but he. determined to treat it and plant in the ground from which the crop had been,taken. The Queensland “Agricultural Journal” quotes Mr Stanton’s report, in which ho says :—“The resulting crop came out perfectly’ clean on a plot of about three-quar-ters of an acre, and the, method I adopted may possibly he of some use to potato-growers. The seed must he whole. Prepare a solution of 31h of Milestone dissolved in hot water, and then add 40 gallons of clean water. Make up the solution in a tank or other vessel large enough to hold the above quantity of'water. Into this plunge the potatoes, and allow thorn to remain in the solution for two hours. Then take them out, and while wot sprinkle them with a good coating of sulphur. The same water may he used several times.”