POTATO BLIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 December 1909, Page 8

POTATO BLIGHT.

DREADNOUGHT BLIGHT PBEVEN. /I AT \r, DISCOVERED IN JAMAICA, WESf - , INDIES,, , A 6iire remedy for tho prevention of BLIGHT in POTATOES., Can bo used {or turnips and other vegetables, /-flowers, etc., with groat success. Directions for using with potatoes. 61b. to bo dissolved in 2j gallons ot water. No stock or stable, manure to be used, but special manuii Itta potatoes can bo used with advantage. Cut the potato seed, and 'soak for 24 hours. Seed to bo dry when planted. In badly-infected blight districts, it is best not to cut tho seed, but plant whole. If seed,, cut, dip in wood ash so as to thoroughly dry. Ground not to be in wet stato when planting potatoes. If the crops are spiaycd it will increase the' production a, hundredfold. Can be used for blight on tuinips and other plants. Soak for 1 hours and then '6ifA : - : y'- i t r S !: .--'-''-:-:::----.-,r : : :•■■,-.-■ -■■-■■■ '■;'■"' This celebrated; specific.-,was ■: discovered in'jamaicttiiiianyi.years ago as the result "pf . investigations during failure of crops owing ' toy blight.'. •'■'..'■ The'; a celebrated''Analytical .Chemist, 1 left ..the re'eipo" in-;the : ;hands ,of : .his'.son,' who. has 'been tnost',"successful., in curing: blight. He - has now ;left"New. Zealand for his ■home "in;, the- West .Indies, and. has.e'ntrusted;us.with theiSolo-Agency for Australasia ,-fof',ithis, celebrated remedy. ;Por further particulars as to'prico, etc., apply,to DWANiBEOS., Willis Street, Wei-;flngto^Adyt.'.Vj.-:V.':v ;K;. : :■', .-■.•,...;.