1907.] 



Clover Sickness. 



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1. Power to make such Orders as the Board or Department 

 think expedient for preventing the introduction of the pest. 



2. Power to prohibit or regulate the landing of any vegetable 

 substance or other article brought from any place out of Great 

 Britain or Ireland, the landing whereof may appear to the 

 Board or Department likely to introduce the pest, and to 

 direct or authorise destruction of the article if landed. 



3. Forfeiture by the Customs of articles illegally landed. 



4. Power to make such Orders as the Board or Department 

 think expedient for preventing "the spreading of the pest. 



5. Power to direct or authorise the removal or destruction 

 of any crop, trees or bushes or other substance on which the 

 pest in any state of existence is found, or to or by means of 

 which the pest may appear to the Board or Department 

 likely to spread, and the entering on any lands for the purposes 

 of such destruction or removal, or for examination or inquiry, 

 or any other purpose. 



6. Power to prohibit the sale, &c, of specimens of the pest. 



7. Power to impose penalties for offences against the Orders. 



8. Power by Order, with the consent of a Local Authority, 

 to direct or authorise payment by them of compensation for 

 crops, trees or bushes removed or destroyed under an Order. 

 The compensation is not to exceed half value for diseased 

 crops, &c, nor three-quarter value for other crops. 



9. The Local Authorities who may be required to carry 

 the Orders into effect are the same as those under the Diseases 

 of Animals Acts. 



This expression is used by farmers to describe the condition 

 of a crop of clover, which up to a certain point has progressed 

 satisfactorily, and then suddenly corn- 

 Clover Sickness. mences to die off in patches ; in extreme 

 cases the entire crop may disappear. 

 The term is somewhat general in its application, and in reality 

 covers the outcome of an attack by " eelworms " Tylenchus 

 devastatrix, Kuhn, or by a fungus called Sclerotinia trifoliorum, 

 Eriksson. 



Some doubts have been expressed as to whether " eel- 

 worms " are a primary cause of " clover sickness." Absolute 

 proof as to the primary cause of a given disease is by no means 



