280 DOWNY MILDEW OF MAIZE. 



The treatment, on the information at present available, should 

 be directed to preventing the persistence of the parasite in the 

 oosporal stage from the previous crop. For this purpose it will 

 be sufficient to remove and destroy all diseased plants before they 

 wither. Such plants can be easily recognised in the field and, so 

 long as the disease remains sporadic, there should be no special 

 difficulty in combating it. 



Pusa : 

 January 15th, 1913. 



