DISEASE IN WILLOW TREES.
CRICKET BAT INDUSTRY AFFECTED. United Press Association--By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 8. The opening of the 1931 season revealed a remarkable position in the cricket bat industry, due to the ravages of the watermark disease, which is a bacterial affection, causing death to willow trees worth £2OO to £3OO each. The willow growing country is practically confined to Hertfordshire and Suffolk. Experiments in growing cricket willows elsewhere have been without result, the bats having no drive. The demand for bats is as great as ever, and unless the blight is stopped the position promises to be most difficult.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18848, 10 April 1931, Page 11
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102DISEASE IN WILLOW TREES. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18848, 10 April 1931, Page 11
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