FORMALIN

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 270, 3 August 1906, Page 2

FORMALIN

(TO THB BDITO&.) Sir,—l notice some remarks Nescio m your issue of July ISste on potato blight and formalis. “ ” evidently dies not ka.;V f rmtl-.lebyde occurs c »mmercisHy t* formalin. Oparau evidently rf-« to the -10 par cent, s >ln*ion, ie much used f>r di-i freting and preservative purpose’. lam ■ not to taach “ Ne-cio," but i»s I have mvstlf carried uut a aeries bv. peri'uontg with the obj-c- f " bating tho potato blight, and .xa which was very .s icco-sful wa:fcion cf liquid commercial forma water. If the seed p')tat->e» got blight and are to be plan • ground where blight bas alraa:! ■ < curved, thty should be soaked !-■ - • days iu a mixture of at lea«t * v-.bi « sp ioof-.il of liq lid fo-m-din in » ga l. nof water. In my first meat with formalin I bad > good c-np of po'at'jes, but a few ware b'ighel. Last spring I mixed nl« phur and lime wish tha soi’ d-h sowing the potatoes, and also treated tha s-oed potatoes with formalin a?d dried them on a shelf. Tbe result wae that there was no blight at a!T. Thle year I am trying tbe lime and sulpht f separately from tbe formalin, and alto both together. To be able to give a definite pronouncement on the subject, requires a much longer seriec of experiments than there has yet bees time for, but the difference between the crops treated experimentally and those adjacent not so treated was *o encouragingly in favour ot tbe formal thst I am encouraged to make furthrf trials.—Yours, etc., KAHURANGI.