1921.] 



Wart Disease : New Orders. 



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As the first step, the Ministry has issued a short order 

 amending certain sections of the Wail Disease of Potatoes Order 

 of 1919, so as to permit the planting of any varieties of potatoes 

 on the clean lands in infected areas. With regard to the land 

 actually infected, or known to have been infected, the Order 

 permits the planting therein only of those varieties which have 

 been approved by the Ministry as immune to the disease and 

 which have been certified by a government inspector as reason- 

 ably free from " rogues:" though, in addition, permission is 

 Igiven to plant on any such land seed saved from the crop grown 

 on that land in a previous year. No licence will be required in 

 future for the movement of seed potatoes into wart disease 

 infected areas. 



No potatoes grown outside the United Kingdom will be per- 

 mitted to be planted in England and Wales unless the Ministry 

 issues a licence allowing it. 



After the close of the next planting season, a further order 

 will be issued prohibiting the movement out of any infected 

 area to any clean area of potatoes grown in an infected area 

 except " ware " potatoes of immune varieties. These will be 

 permitted to be sent to districts which are infected areas, pro- 

 vided they are accompanied by a statement to the effect that, they 

 are of an approved immune variety, that they were grown in an 

 infected area, and that they will not be used for planting. This 

 order will also provide that no seed potatoes may be sold for 

 planting anywhere in England and Wales unless they have been 

 certified (a) to be of an approved immune variety, true to type 

 and reasonably free from " rogues." or (b) that they were grown 

 on a holding which is not in an infected area and on which wart 

 disease has not occurred. 



