THE POTATO BLIGHT.
IS IT ALL A MISTAKE? (Per Prc®s Association.) PALMUKSTOX N., Match lit). ,A Government inspector leeentK \i.4ited a crop of several acres of potatoes 'grown from specially imported seed, hy Messrs Slack Bros., oit* Awapuni, and after careful examination pronounced them to be seriously affected with Irish blight. The crop was a valuable one, und its infection meant a serious loss. Samples of the affected leaves were sent to Mr Kirk, Government I'omologist, who now writes l to Messrs Stack I'ros. (hut the niiarks on» the leaves are those of the early blight, and not of the Irish blight. Early (light, it might be staled, is a miia and quite harmless form of infection, cuusvd by diy weather aud exceptionally rapid maluringv, and is quite apart from fungus growth, although not unlike it in appearance. After this experience the question naturally arises, lias the same error l>eon made in the ens;.* of other growers and large crops thus been wrongly condemned '?
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 777, 21 March 1905, Page 3
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164THE POTATO BLIGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 777, 21 March 1905, Page 3
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