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WART DISEASE OF THE POTATO. 



The most eflfective protection against the importation of potatoes is 

 the tariff of 25 cents a bushel. Yet in spite of this the following 

 quantities have come to our markets from abroad:'' 



Country from which imported. 



Austria-Hungary 



Belgium 



Bermuda 



Canada 



Germany 



Netherlands 



Spain 



United Kingdom. 

 Other countries . . 



Year ended .Tune 30 — 



1906. 



Quantity. 



Bushels. 



34,909 



37,275 



68, 964 



421, 106 



152, 323 



9,316 



1,774 



1,192,074 



30, 419 



Value. 



Dollars. 

 17, 146 

 14, 422 



95, 205 



126, 798 



69, 761 



5, 379 



1,558 



504,377 



18, 417 



Total 1,948,160 



853, 063 



1907. 



Quantity, 



Bushels. 



741 



75 



87,048 



11,393 



39,419 



5,704 



7,730 



5, 673 



19, 134 



Value. 



Dollars. 

 331 



84 



135, 569 



5,970 



19, 984 



2,184 



7,408 



3,706 



17,399 



176,917 I 192,635 



1908. 



Quantity. 



Bushels. 



1,723 



6, 889 



80,711 



177, 102 



62, 059 



38, 892 



11,246 



2, 269 



23, 061 



403, 952 



Value. 



Dollars. 



746 



3, 650 



109, 561 



80,006 



38,368 



18, 169 



11,596 



1, 321 



19,616 



283,032 



The principal ports of entr}^ of potatoes in 1908 were as follows: 

 Aroostook, Me., 67,766 bushels; Bangor, Me., 56,312 bushels; Boston 

 and Charlestown, Mass., 34,901 bushels; New York, 202,069 bushels; 

 Passamaquodd}^ Me., 3,286 bushels; Porto Rico. 19,285 bushels; Key 

 West, Fla., 2,613 bushels; Arizona, 8,213 bushels; Charaplain, N. Y., 

 1,390 bushels; other ports, 8,057 bushels. Total, 103,952 bushels.'' 



Since the interest and knowledge of the public must be our main 

 dependence in preventing the establishment of the potato wart in 

 Amei'ica, it is urged that all importers, dealers, and consumers of 

 foreign potatoes watch for the disease and promptly report to the 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington any cases discovered. 



All infected potatoes should be boiled or burned. No part of any 

 lot containing diseased potatoes should be used for seed purposes. 



If the disease is found on growing potatoes, heroic measures should 

 be taken to eradicate the trouble by burning the entire lot and planting 

 no more potatoes on that field for six or seven years. 



There should be some modification of our laws so as to enable the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to deal promptl}- with special dangers of this 

 sort arising from the importation of infected plants. 



a Bulletin 76, Bureau of Statistics, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, p. 54. 

 b Information furnished by Bureau of Statistics, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 

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