AUCTION SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 294, 6 September 1920, Page 8

AUCTION SALES

I ■ FORTHCOMING FIXTURES. i. - _, ' TO-DAY. 2 Upland Eoad, Kslburn.-l p.m.—Furniture sale (Vine and Wi'fon). Marton Yards, 1 p.m.—Hogget sale (N.Z. Farmers' C'o.-op.). 5 Maurice Terrace, Wellington, 1.30 p.m. ■'.-.'—Furnituretfale.(Nathan and Co.). -'■-■';■■.■ TO-MOBEOW. .' "153Lanibton Quay, Wellington, 10.30 a.m. —Sale of enamelware, etc. (Johnstqn and Co.). , Martinoorough, 1 p.ra.-Stock sale .■'•'■ v :' (Wright, Stephenson). Cambridge.—Horse Fair (Farmers' Co op. "'■'■' Auction Co.). , ;...,,, ,■■ ' WEDNESDAY. . Otaki, 12 noon.—Sale of dairy cattle (Dalgeiy and Co., and Abraham and Williams). , . : Levin, 12 noon.—Land sale (Commissioner. ■ of Crown Lands). '"' Shannon Yards, 1 p.m.—Stock eale (.i bra- ! • ham and Williams). ' 203 Lambton Quay, Wellington, 2.30 P-m. < -City property, sale (Longmore and Co.) Cambridge.-Horse fair (2nd'day) (Farm-'■'*■'-ers' Co-op. Auction Co.). POTATO SCAB ' CONTROL BY SEED TREATMENT. "Scab" a relatively serious disease, may T>c controlled by treating the potatoes ' before planting, according to an Amen. ; ' can agricultural writer. The ..treatment consists in "dipping the potatoes in a solution of one pint of formalin to. 30 gallons of water, the potatoes remaining in the solution for an hour and a half. They are : then removed and allowed to^ • urv "before planting. ' . ' A practical system for .treating seed potatoes for farmers, consists in placing from* four to six crates of potatoes in a tank of the solution for the necessary 'time and then allowing them to dry on the drain board so that: the drainjng ' solution runs; back' into the treating tank. -■.■■. ''~,'„ l It is (necessary to disinfect, the era tea holding the potatoes, for the disease may ■ b's transmitted by the seal) spores on the crate or planting machinery.