Mar. 2, 11)08.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 



199 



The former treatment, viz., witli formalin, is recoimiicnded, and has been 

 used on this farm 



Dmmiy Mil(leiL\ or Rot, attai'ks stems, leaves, and tubers. Treatment : 

 Weak solutions of Bordeaux mixture sprayed on at shoi't intervals often 

 effects a cure. 



There are other diseases which require special treatment ; hut it is alway.s 

 best, when a badly-diseased plant appears, to pull it uji and l)urn it. 



I am indebted to Mr. A. A. DunniclifT, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 fi r valuable informrition re the varieties, which he found all true to name, 

 except, he points out, tliat one that was sent here under the name of 

 " Satisfaction " is " Centennial," and it now goes under that name here ; it is 

 one of our \evy best. 



A preliminary experiment was made to find out best seed to plant, as 

 follows : — 



A potato 6 oz. in weight, with sixteen eyes : The yield from one plant w^as 

 8 lb. 12 oz., the largest tuber weighing 13 oz., and smallest, \ oz. ; a very 

 uneven lot. 



A potato ^ oz. only in weight : The yield from one plant was 3 lb. 4 oz. ; 

 largest tuber, 8^ oz. ; smallest tuber, ^ oz. : an uneven lot. 



A potato 2 oz. in weight, with five eye--, yielded 4^ lb. from one plant ; 

 largest potato being 8 oz., and smallest tuber, \ oz. ; a very even lot 

 generally. 



All the above were planted whole, none being cut. 



Further and more extensi\e experiments relative to the above, and also to 

 cut and uncut seed, are in course of being carried out at the Farm here this 

 vear. 



