civ Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
Earcockle in the Punjab.— reve Dr. Mitne. 
The ap bes Pape Sercona is Tylenchus scandens, a nematode worm. It 
enters the and produces galls ins nie of wheat grains. A 
brief outline a co life. Sators of the disease in wheat plots at Lyallpur is 
WwW ripen in April. The 
dance in the — and young buds, and were very active. Where many 
e bu i i a 
ull ec 
never met with this slimy bacterial substance except on plants affected by 
earcockle. Lightly sieeonen pants showed little sign of the disease unless 
minutely examine he worms are carried up with the wheat head as 
it comes out of the ear, collect. in the ovary and suck the juices whic 
e em 
ge-layin 
of March. Hatching starts by the end of pape nd ends in early April, 
e me. 
ousands of young worms may be Soaps in one gall. The galls dry 
and the worms menses quiescent. They may remain in this state and 
The 
been met with where it has «sa 50 to 80% of the crop ina etantls 
r 2} | 
is a no expense in a si 
without upsetting their rotations, by simply sowing clean seed grain. 
types of wheat agony on _— Punjab are immune from the disease. 
Barley is affected by the same 
The galls ec ner be best abbas | from the grain by a combination of 
winnowing and s 
The ge Dele among farmers is that the disease is due to bad 
phe . untimely rains, ete., and that it is hopeless sneer’ to aed 
the , think we should bee this work by ‘selecting a few very 
a ttime. We 
y had very esults with this m ethod of convincing 
—— of the agar * “setting rid of t gh wotrwt Later we can 
the services 0 age District Boards and Co- 
ocean Credit Societion t in he 
Earcockle differs from all tine wheat diseases in the aman in that 
cases have occu aak in which individual farmers have lost most of their 
crop for several years in succession by its ra vages. This fact ap it out 
as by far the most deadly wheat disease in the province. 
be glad of 
Is any information regarding its occurrence, etc., in 
her parts of India. 
Drainage and crop | eorccanpa in India.—By A. Howarp 
and G. L. C. How 
One of the factors which rane p production over large areas of 
the monsoon fed area of India is detective drainage. In the oS of 
