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STATE BOARD OF" AGRICULTURE. 



LEAF CURL OF BEETS. 



This is a condition appearing at irregular intervals in a field of bets showing a 

 deadened condition of the old leaves and a growth of sickly leaves resembling the con- 

 dition of leaf curl of the peach. The condition is not uniform, nor is there any particular 

 condition of soil so far as we have noticed by which it can be located. From examina- 

 tion of fields where the beets have been grown continuously for four years as compared 







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with new land on which beets were growing this season for the fust time, there seems 

 to be little difference in the frequency of appearance of this disease. Neither did one 

 variety of seed, or seed from any particular source show it more than others. From 

 numerous observations it is found to appear on from one to three beets in one hundred. 



