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Early Potatoes in Infected Areas. 



[Aug., 



In the Beading experiments, carried out under the auspices 

 of the Ministry, the following mixtures gave excellent results : — 



(1) Linseed Meal - 3 parts. (2) Linseed Meal - 2 parts. 



Bean Meal - 3 „ Fish Meal - 1 part. 



Fish Meal - 1 part. 



(3) Linseed Meal - - 3 jDarts. 

 Finely Ground Oats - 3 „ 

 Fish Meal - - 1 part. 



Beginning when the calves were two weeks old, the meals 

 were fed with whey, gradually replacing whole milk until, at the 

 age of one month, the calves received daily 1 gallon of whey and 

 1 lb. of meal. At the outset the meal was mixed with whey, 

 but the calves soon took to it in the dry form. From four weeks 

 onward they were given hay, and a little later a small allowance 

 of linseed cake, coconut cake and maize gluten feed. 



It is essential that fish meal used for calf-rearing should be of 

 the best quality and finely ground. It is a useful sapplemontary 

 food for sheep on roots and may be fed at the rate of 2 to 3 oz. 

 daily per 100 lb. live weight, together with roots or other green 

 food. For pigs, a useful proportion is from one -ninth to one- 

 seventh of the total dry foods, rising in the last month to more 

 than 1 lb. per head daily. Such feeding leaves no detrimental 

 trace upon the colour, smell, taste or cooking qualities of the 

 meat. Before feeding to pigs the sample should be tasted in 

 order to see that it does not contain too much salt, which, in any 

 appreciable quantity, is injurious. 



During the season 1921 the Ministry has decided to permit 

 the planting, in districts scheduled as Infected Areas under the 

 Wart Disease of Potatoes Orders, of first 

 Planting of early potatoes of varieties susceptible to Wart 

 Early Potatoes m j^jg^^g^^ rp^^ concession made to market 

 Intected Areas. ^^^^^.^^.^ ^g^g f^^, the year 1920 to intro- 

 duce fresh ' ' seed ' ' of first early susceptible varieties into 

 Infected Areas will now be extended to all growers. The effect 

 of this decision is that, next year, any true first early variety 

 of potato, whether " own-saved " or otherwise, as well as the 

 variety " Eclipse " and any variety recognised by the Ministry 

 as being of the " Eclipse " type, may be planted in any land 

 in an Infected Area other than land on which Wart Disease has 

 been known to exist. 



