THE POTATO CHOP.
The Government Biologist declares that the potato crop will show a shortage for the season. The havoc this year in some districts is as great as last year. Many people who had sprayed systematically had written to the Department stating that they had been perfectly satisfied with the results of this saving operation. In every case where persons claimed to have sprayed in vain he had found that they had made mistakes either' in the mixing or application of the spray. The chief mistako was that they did not follow tlio instructions to spray on the under side of the leaf. I Tiiere was no doubt that the disease attacked the under side, not the- top of the leaf. Shere was no difficulty about sending the spray underneath, for a special nozzle was made for the purpose at a cost of 2s Gd. Among potatoes imported from New South Wales and Victoria during the last few weeks there had been some consignments badly infested with potato moth ; out of one sack sent to him about 40 per cent, had been afl'ected. A proclamation had been prepared to prohibit the importation of mothinfested potatoes, and this document is now in the hands of tlie Minister.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8141, 25 June 1906, Page 2
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207THE POTATO CHOP. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8141, 25 June 1906, Page 2
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