POTATO BLIGHT.
AN UNWELCOME APPEARANCE. Quite a number of farmers and potato growers had hopes nf getting this sea-' son's tuboi's out of the ground before' ail appearance "was 1 made by I ho; blight. HowCier, the blight has come and tiic''potato, crops are in many cases scarcely fit to (life- ■ '■ The absence of rain for a prolonged period kept up the hopes of the croppers, hut tho warm falls ol : recent weeks reduced the chances.of a good season. Some crops did not show signs of blackening right away, but others did at once. The disease lias now appeared in crops in ncnrly every district, but as usual some crops liavo not been tainted. Tlie actual extent of tho; outbreak is not yet known, but there arc indications that the results will not be as serious as in some previous seasons. One of the first places to report that the blight had • arrived was Taranaki, but Taranaki always has a more regular, rainfall than, most parts of the country. Ilanawatu and the Rangitikei have since reported blackened leaves where green ones were a few days previously:
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 8
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186POTATO BLIGHT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 8
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