MOTTLED HEART DISEASE OF SWEDES.
INVESTIGATIONS. A number of farmers have visited the State Experimental Farm at Waimaunga to witness the first examination of an extensive experiment to demonstrate a system of manuring for the purpose of producing a good crop of swedes free from the internal disease known as Mottled Heart. Some five thousand bulbs have now been cut open for examination and records taken of the weight of the crop and the percentage of disease produced as the result of the application of about seventy-five different combinations of fertilisers. Sonic very striking differences have been obtained with the different fertilisers; whilst in some cases one fertiliser combination lias resulted in over seventy-five per cent, of badly diseased bulbs, another combination in the next row has produced a large crop in perfectly healthy condition. The full results are not yet available, hut the value of wooda.sli in combination with certain artificial fertilisers has, it is understood, been clearly brought out. Half of the experiment is being reserved for a further examination at a later date.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1926, Page 3
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176MOTTLED HEART DISEASE OF SWEDES. Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1926, Page 3
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