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variety in demand ; ic — make himself familiar with the diseases of 
cane, ee gum 
vice was shat i: should furnish es of two sorts 
E Cant in stalks selected from as healthy crops as possible (by the 
examination of stalks from here and there all through t l ; 
. Cane sets, z.e., already cut up, the same to be aed) in the most 
careful manner after rigid inspection, and to be as healthy and free... 
from gum as possible. 
No. 1 eould be sold at 30s. De ton —possibly veis this would depend 
on the patronage of the growers. 
No. 2 would have to be sold at a — higher price, and would. be 
used by the growers for nursery pur 
The Lower Clarence would furnish, gi believe, a living for one plant- 
cane specialist ; the whole Clarence for n more than one. The farmers 
were warned to bear in mind that the disease exists in all ñelds on the 
river, so that the matter of poem non-gummed € is of interest to 
the up-river farmers as well as the down-river farm 
he distribution of the mibe is as follows, as ; far as at preseut 
known :— 
1. General. 
(a.) On the Clarence River. 
(6.) On the Richmond River. 
(c.) In all probability in Queensland. 
2. Local on the Clarence. 
While gummed cane is common all along the river, it is much more 
common on the Lower Clarence, and the gens is there much worse: 
than abot the town of Maclean. 
believe I examined nearly all the varieties of cane at d grown- 
examined 
on the Clarence River. No variety ex: was perfectly free from — 
gum, though a long search had to be made in some cases to find it. It 
is very noticeable that the varieties stenty" introduced are much more: 
healthy, as far as gumming is concerned, than those long in use. Nearly 
every stalk of some of the new introductions was found to be free from 
even traces of gum. On this ground, as well as others, the introduction 
and trial of new varieties is strongly to be commended. This depart- 
ment has done well during s past few years to import and distribute 
to cane growers va rieties from Queensland, Fiji, New Guinea, and 
Louisiana. I made numerous drawings of the fungi eranised, and the: 
nematodes and other injurious organisms seen during the progress of the- 
kioii as gums. Iam satisfied that it is in the main Laip of a 
definite chemieal compound to which x have given the name vasculin. 
The detailed reactions of vaseulin, the particulars of the life history 
of B. vascularum, the full parteis of the disease gumming of sugar- 
cane so far as known, together with numerous illustrations, will be 
submitted in the full report, as well as full details of all the practical 
ecupidns the latter of which it has: here been possible only to ci medi 
pes : 
