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Clover Sickness. 



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using gas-lime. This should be allowed to lie on the surface 

 for a month, and then lightly ploughed in. If gas-lime is not 

 available, deep ploughing should be resorted to, as the eelworms 

 are destroyed when deeply buried. 



Diseased material should be removed, and although it may 

 appear absurd to suggest that it should be burned or deeply 



FIG. 2. — "Segged" or "tulip-rooted" oats. 



buried, such are in reality the only certain means of pre- 

 venting a repetition of the disease. The reason why it should 

 not be used as food for animals has already been given, and 

 if it is converted into manure the eelworms and their eggs 

 are not destroyed, but returned to the land. 



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