1922.] 



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or formalin, or by dressing the seed with one of the tarry pre- 

 parations supplied for the purpose. 



In conclusion, the authors wish to express their thanks to 

 Mr. W. P. Wiltshire, of the Long Ashton Experiment Station, 

 for his reports of the disease as it occurred in South Wales, and 

 to Mr. J. C. F. Fryer for notes upon the bean weevils. 



References. 



( 1) Manns, T. F., and Taubtnhaus, J. J.: u Streak : A Bacterial Disease of the 



Sweet Pea and Clover." Garcl. Chron., 53, p. 215, 11)15. 



(2) Manns, T. F. : " Some New Bacterial Diseases of Legumes." Delaware 



College Agr. Exp. Sta Bui. 108, 1915. 



(3) Paine, S. G., and Bewley, W. F. : Studies in Bacteriosis. IV. 14 Stripe 



Disease of Tomato." Ann. App. Biol.. VI, p. 183, 1919. 



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MARROW-STEMMED KALE FOR 

 POULTRY. 



Licy A. Hutchinson, B.A. Hons. (Equivalent, Cambs.). 



Recent high prices have given a considerable impetus to 

 intensive poultry-keeping and to " back-yard " poultry- 

 keeping. One of the chief difficulties poultry-keepers of these 

 classes have to face is that of providing green food for their 

 stock. Where the so-called " yard " is of the nature of a 

 garden, or where, in the case of larger poultry-keepers working 

 intensively, a portion of the kind can be devoted to the growing of 

 greens, the cultivation of marrow-stemmed kale will be found 

 to yield excellent results. The seed should be sown in late 

 April or early May, according to the season. It may be sown 

 in a seed bed, and the young seedlings planted out in rows 

 2 ft. apart and 1-J or 2 ft. apart in the row — or, as a labour- 

 saving method, a few seeds may be dibbled into holes at the 

 required distances, the plants afterwards being thinned out to 

 two or three in each group. The writer's experience has been 

 that the finest individual plants are obtained by the former 

 method, but the greatest bulk of food by the latter. Tn the 

 latter case, the thinnings supply some food from the outset. 

 In both cases, during growth green leaves from the top of 

 the stem can be gathered frequently, care being taken not to 

 take sufficient to injure the growth of the plant. Tn this way 

 a considerable amount of food is obtained throughout the 



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