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2. Indications of Disease. — [a) Thin " gappy " rows ; 

 (b) puny haulm ; (c) small curled leaves ; (d) non-decay of 

 the seed tuber ; (e) a poor crop. 



3. Predisposing Causes of the Disease. — (a) Worn out seed 

 stocks ; (b) drought. 



4. Preventive Measures. — (a) Seed selection and preparation ; 

 (b) change of seed stock ; (c) adequate moisture ; (d) experi- 

 ments with immature seed ; (e) destruction by fire of any 

 diseased sets, leaves, or haulm ; (/) dressing the ground with 

 kainit. 



THE TRANSPORT OF SUSSEX POULTRY. 

 J. W. Hurst. 



The whole question of transport is one which materially 

 affects an industry such as poultry production, in which the 

 unit of production is so comparatively insignificant. Whilst 

 in some cases the facilities are sufficiently favourable for a 

 reasonable margin of profit, their absence in other instances 

 kills production in its inception. It is no doubt true that one 

 of the dominant economic facts of our age is the development 

 of the transport industries, but it must not be forgotten that 

 the cheapening of transport in general has been to the dis- 

 advantage of such an industry as that of East Sussex, owing to 

 the increased facilities it has afforded far-distant competitors, 

 without any corresponding adequate advantage to Sussex 

 producers. In other districts also, where the output has been 

 too small to admit of special concessions (similar to those 

 obtainable in such an extensive trade as that of Sussex), the 

 cheapening of transport has, by benefiting the large con- 

 signors or combinations of consignors, left the smaller and 

 scattered producers in a still more hopeless and helpless condi- 

 tion than was formerly the case. From the carrier's point of 

 view it is of course primarily a question of the difference 

 between wholesale and retail. 



So far, economic progress has been exceptionally favourable 

 to the marketers of produce from a distance, but the advantages 

 of home producers are in many other ways very great, and, 

 could they but escape some of the supplementary costs at 



