Chance Discovery. —How by accident a control for a particularly bad disease in wheat had been discovered was related by Mr G. Gibbs, a member of the. staff of tiie plant research station at Palmertson North, at a meeting of I lie Manawalu branch of the Royal Society. The disease, a small, was so serious that it would have'stopped the milling of any flour, he commented. The control was found when a wheat ship was wrecked on the coast of Ireland and sacks of wheat washed upon the shore were used by the farmers for seed. They noticed that resulting crops were free from smut, and so discovered that the disease could be controlled by treating the seed with a brine. I
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19629, 16 July 1935, Page 8
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