For failin;; to notify black scab disease in his'potatoes, Samuel Pye, farmer, oi lioinford, was at -St. Helens (Laiioashii-e) on .Octnlwr 21,, fined 40s. and costs. The prosecution was instituted by the Lancashire. County, Council, aud, it is slated, was the iirst of tbo land in the United Kingdom. The daiiger' lay in the possibility of the potatoes l>eing sold lor seed, and so spreading the disease.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1309, 12 December 1911, Page 8
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67Untitled Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1309, 12 December 1911, Page 8
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