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[Aveusr 23, 1919. 
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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING 
.. WEEK. i 
БА 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26 
Roy: va Hortadultural: Boo. Conimit tees 
a та 
бо? 
ure by Mr. H. Burns, A bpm. 
ent Devel lopment. in and around Leiceste: 
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 
Sandy Flower Show. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST -30.— 
Southport Fruit and Vegetable Show. 
meet. 
Allot- 
AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE for the ensuing week 
deduced from окей during the Lac fifty 
years at Greenwich, 61.359, 
ACTUAL TEMPERATURE :— 
barat Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Street, 
qu бед. аг 7 Aug. 90, 
ather—Rainy 
he con tinued spr read of. 
Ormskirk Pot. 
"s wart disease of the 
Trials, 1919. Potato, its serious effec 
on the erop, 
compulsor hi Board- of 
Арени has felt bound to adopt. in 
order to a check its spread, have 
combined to draw attention to the trials 
wibich t oard commenced several years 
ago at Ormskirk. That this om 
well merited 
W. 
be conducted have to 
care exercised by Mr. John Snell (and for 
is k praise сап | grea’ 
under the trials are conducted, 
m e re righ as n ite as may 
be, and a few Varieties bor oc to be 
recorded as doubtful each yi 
of туу will 
new land recently acquired, and wi 
oe uni vidis is Likely to be available 
next , is brought into use, 
No cure for the disease is kn 
of the o 
m ш the disease. The only remain 
ans of obtaining a crop, therefore, 
e uud parvus wW varieties о De naan rer gn 
to attack, and it is in ida 
sistant varieties that the Ormskirk ru sri 
re so valuable iban al y seconid- 
arly varieties, li Ki ani 
Great Scot, are available, but of firs 
earlies less can yet be said with certainty 
Midlothian Early (or Duke of York, ast 
variety is Lu > lled), Ninetyfold, May 
icure П susceptible 
Mir a re cir dos y their 
e? ined at ober for 
On. 
the "finn t time Vids Б мн мен ery promis- 
ing,so far as habit, earliness ant i ha 
go, but the very best о ese have 
susceptible to шы Т Tw 
thers beco 
taken, but th#re is а very р: 
g that a really first-class, first-early, 
immune, white-skinned Ро: is still to 
be sought. There is room, therefore, for 
much eff in ising new first-early 
varieti | as Dr. Keeble—at the dis- 
Nt 
Eq 
ri 
БЕ 
MET 
firs beari iaar would do 
well to use as s parents only early varieties 
ate varieties (since Templar produces 
ly a medium es d' a 
uber le E in = p and 
L produces so thon small tubers 
атаб the’ ep i man. are Roderick 
ps hu ani LM Tindw: her 
ew. o gar 
all w confer a great 
benefit upon the "Tinglsh Potato grower 
ironical ^ cheers 
Destruction Which greeted the intro- 
of Rats. ction to th ouse 
for th 
Rats and Mice must have grated on the 
ears of all who suffer m the depreda- 
tions of ine vermin. It well known 
that the losses which rats Мови от 
agricu alarh: and growers еа тое are 
enormous, and also that of recent years 
the losses have ‘eased. esi 
Maize, 
hot actually swarmed up the stems and 
devoured the ripening heads о: eed." 
In the other they developed d dde 
aste for Gooseberr pert и made соп- 
siderable ore Eua e ripe berries of 
mall plant These, how 
"E mice Pn mor 
eover, enemies to | 
гета л 
апа as is now well known, 
S = disease. 
heir ity and versati E make 
them redoubtable enemies 
h 
a ie 
nothing, Tat ie systematic — 
is of u E keeping their num- | 
тн within b s. 
It is be object of the Bill 
this action im the firs 
far as 
to secure 
aking reason: | 
ble Min practicable Fm for the destruc- 
tion of the eraa 
I and plenteous days of 
the past rm ws ot feeding stuffs шй | 
де been considered of p importan 
preserv individ' 
liberty of inaction. 7 Bus the 
importance and urgency that all unneces- 
s l f food 1а be preve: te 
He wers conferred by the Bill 
Hence the on 
on the Local Authori 
an 
ledgo w 
of dealing with these 
— | 
———— 
New President of the Board of Agriculture Ti ў 
is. officially announced that Lord Lee of dl 
am. has ee resident of the Boa 
iculti im succession Lord 
, who recently gave the Chequers estate, 
Bucking , the п as & 
residence future Prime M 
D int ration for the sum 0 
the ion ior 
ром, рег acre. After due 
sideration, the Glasgow Parks’ 
mended the Council to purchase The 
the sum asked, and the Council, by a 
majority, agre o = = addition 
to 
many other "attractions 
urse which is at present nel by t 
Беш of the Cathcart Castle Golf nm d 
ment.—Une Е: 
t intensive cultivar. 
Potalos, Ew. to all this there are x 
