NEWSPAPER BULLETINS AND CIRCULARS 

 PUBLISHED IN 1906. 



Chas. D. Woods. 



Whenever there is a matter of importance which we wish to 

 bring promptly to the attention of the people of the State, we 

 make as clear and concise a statement as possible in the style 

 and type of a newspaper column and mail it as a "Special News- 

 paper Bulletin" to all the press on the Station exchange mail- 

 ing list. These newspaper bulletins are quite generally printed 

 by the papers, and the Station is under obligations to the press 

 for this opportunity of specially and promptly being put in touch 

 with the people. 



The Station also prepares circulars of information which are 

 used in sending to correspondents. During the year the Sta- 

 tion has issued several newspaper bulletins on miscellaneous 

 subjects, and has issued quite a number of circulars relative to 

 insects. The subject matter of such of the newspaper bulletins 

 and circulars as has not appeared in the regular bulletins of the 

 Stations is here printed as a matter of permanent record. 



POTATO SCAB. 



Potato scab is more or less prevalent all over Maine. Because 

 in some years it is more troublesome than in others, and because 

 the disease itself is so little understood by practical growers, 

 there is danger of its not being regarded with the importance 

 that it deserves. For these reasons the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station has prepared the following statements : 



The common idea that potato scab is produced by chip dirt, 

 ashes or something of that kind is erroneous. It is a fungus 

 disease and grows from spores, the same as any other fungus. 

 Certain conditions favor its growth and such favorable con- 

 ditions may be furnished by chip dirt, lime, ashes, etc. When 



