. I line, 1915. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



168 



Potato Inspection in Practice 



By H. T. Gussow, Dominion Botanist 



The potato regulations under the "De- 

 structive Insect and Pest Act" have been 

 given a preliminary test as to their practica- 

 bility, their effect upon general shipping, 

 and the quality of potatoes generally. The 

 inspection of potatoes was primarily under- 

 taken with the view of preventing the dis- 

 ease powdery scab from being dispersed 

 over uninfected areas in Canada, and of 

 controlling it as much as possible within the 

 infected area. 



Provision was made under the Act in 

 agreement with the United States, permit- 

 ting the entry into the United States of po- 

 tatoes free from powdery scab, subject to 

 rigid inspection and to the condition that all 

 such potatoes were grown from clean seed 

 and on land that has never been infected 

 with powdery scab. For this purpose, 

 growers who had such potatoes (or believed 

 they had) furnished a statement that the 

 conditions were fully complied with. Either 

 the growers have not yet become fully cog- 

 nizant of the importance of powdery scab, 

 or they cannot distinguish common scab 

 from powdery scab, which is indeed most 

 difficult. The result of this attitude was 

 that the inspectors had frequently to con- 

 demn potatoes as unsuitable for "first 

 grade." As far as the inspection of the po- 

 tatoes themselves was concerned, it was 

 found humanly impossible, under the exist- 

 ing conditions and because of the general 

 distribution of powdery scab, to continue 

 safely the shipments to the United States. 

 Comparatively few carloads were shipped 

 to the United States — only 63 in number — 

 when one car was found by the United 

 States potato inspectors in Boston to con- 

 tain potatoes affected with powdery scab; 

 which resulted in the withdrawal of the 

 necessary United States permits for the 

 entry of potatoes into the United States for 

 this season. 



From December 12th, 1914, when the in- 

 spection work commenced in New Bruns- 

 wick, up to February 24th, 1915, the follow- 

 ing quantities of potatoes were shipped 

 from the province of New Brunswick: — 



Total number of bushels Table Po- 

 tatoes inspected from December 

 12, 1914, to February 20, 1915.... 278,927 



Total number of bushels First 



grade Potatoes for TT.S.A 49,343 



'I'otal number of bushels First Grade 



Potatoes for Canada 4,500 



332,770 



'I'he result of the potato inspection this 

 season must be regarded as satisfactory; 

 the preference given to potatoes not affected 

 with powdery scab will eventually induce 

 the growers to take every precaution to get 

 rid of this disease, which he can if he only 

 makes up his mind to do so. The apprecia- 

 tion of the inspected potatoes from New 

 Brunswick clearly shows the value of in- 

 spection as an aid to establi.shing a good 

 name for same. The disease-free New 

 Brunswick potatoes were even given a pref- 

 erence of ten cents a barrel over stock from 

 the state of Maine, when sold in the United 

 State.s. Growers are again cautioned to take 

 every precaution this spring in planting 

 seed potatoes free from scab of any kind on 

 land that has, preferably, not produced a 

 crop of potatoes before 



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