RUST IN WHEAT.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1953, 28 May 1880, Page 3

RUST IN WHEAT.

Mr T. E. Wenar writes from Inverell, N.S.W., to the “ South Australian Register,” as follows: —Having read in the papers of this colony that your Government offer £IOOO for a remedy against rust in wheat, I hereby offer my experience, which is derived from practical use during the last sixty-four years. lam a native of Sweden ; my father was possessed of the S warts jre Estate, eighteen miles from Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and ho used this remedy since 1816. He generally sowed about 400 bags of wheat yearly, and it is now used by my brother, and has never failed. I arrived in this colony in 1853, and have never kept this remedy "a secret, which only requires publicity to be generally used. The application is as follows The evening before you wish to sow your wheat, spread it on your barn floor, and sprinkle over it ordinary brine, which can be done with a wisp of straw, and throw then over it spine slacked lime, the whole afterwards to be well shovelled, so that everv grain receives a fair quantity of lime; the quantity required is for twenty bags of wheat from one to two gallons of brine, and about two bushels of slacked lime. This remedy is very simple and inexpensive, but if properly applied is infallible.