VEGETABLE PARASITES.
TESTS OF A NEW PEEA T ENTIA'E.
A little-known dressing as a preventive of parasitic attacks on root and fodder crops is being tested at the Ruaknra Farm of Instruction this season. It consists of carbonate of lime and crude carbolic acid, the proportions being one ton <it limo and two and a hah gallons oi tho acid. One plot received four and a halt gallons of acid to.the ton of.lime. AAhile a definite conclusion cannot bo drawn from a single experiment, it is interesting to'note., savs the Agricultural Department's Journal, that the mangels on the ground so treated were free from tho attack of .the-beetle in their early stages, while mangels on adjoining land were affected.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 8
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119VEGETABLE PARASITES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 8
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