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and should be glad to know what you think of them. The Cabbage 

 plant we consider a true case of Finger-and-Toe." It was also 

 mentioned that no similar disease had previously been observed in the 

 neighbourhood. The specimens sent were quite certainly of the 

 diseased growth known as Finger-and-Toe, and in the case of the 

 Turnip much putrified at the lower part of the root. 



Somewhat later, at my request, Mr. Blantern favoured me with the 

 following details : — "My Turnips were sown from the 20th to 24th of 

 May on a 20-acre field of ' red loam,' which has been farmed on the 

 four-course system for 30 years ! No Charlock has been grown. The 

 manure used was the following: raw bone meal 4 cwt., mineral super- 

 phosphate 3 cwt., salt 1 cwt., per acre. The Turnips looked re»?rt;7irtW// 

 well until the first week in July, when they suddenly dropped their 

 leaves, and upon examining the roots a disease was visible ; since then 

 they have gone from bad to worse : about 10 acres have entirely dis- 

 appeared ; 5 acres have lingered on, and are similar to the specimens 

 I sent you. The remaining 5 acres, though partially attacked, I esti- 

 mate at about 15 tons to the acre. 



" The Turnip crop generally in this neighbourhood is very heavy 

 this year, and had my crop finished as they promised to do in July 

 last, I should think my weight per acre would have been from 25 to 

 30 tons at the least. From this you will understand that the loss to 

 me is vwst serious, as well as being especially disappointing." — 

 (G. G. B.) 



The following communication was sent me on August 3rd from 

 near Collumpton, Devon, with specimens of " Anburied" roots accom- 

 panying, by Mr. T. Pitt : — " I am sending you by the same post some 

 specimens of Swedes attacked by ' Fingers-and-Toes,' or ' Anbury,' in 

 an early stage." . . . "I have the plants, sown about June 24th, 

 attacked both in heavy and light land (gravel) ; the former, after ley, 

 Wheat, the latter, after ley, Barley, both ploughed last autumn, but 

 worked out this spring, owing to the very unfavourable autumn of 

 1891 ; both manured with farmyard manure this spring, and 1 cwt. of 

 guano, and 3 cwt. of dissolved bones per acre, and 4 cwt. of kainit per 

 acre sown broadcast in spots for trial." ..." Charlock is also 

 badly affected. I believe it is rather general in this neighbourhood : 

 last year we had little or none." — (T. P.) 



From near Rotherham, Yorks, enquiries were sent with the obser- 

 vation : — " The farmers in this neighbourhood have for some years 

 suffered loss by their Turnips ' Finger-and-Toeing ' " ; and from Mr. 

 Leonard, of Preston, Hull, I had a note that he was informed by 

 several growers that in the Selby district (also in Yorkshire), where a 

 little brown Mustard seed is grown, that for a year or two after it, if 

 the land is sown with Turnips, they almost invariably " Finger-and- 

 Toe." 



