670 



Blindness in Barley. 



[FEB., 



The application should be accompanied by an Account of the Income and Expen- 

 diture of the Local Authority in respect of the scheme for the period to which the 

 claim relates, and a Balance Sheet showing the assets and liabilities of the Authority 

 in connection therewith. 



(2). The Board should certify that they are satisfied — 



(i) that the loss cannot reasonably be expected to be recouped out of receipts from 



the future working of the scheme ; 

 (ii) that the loss is not due to (a) excessive price or rent agreed to be paid by the 

 Council, {b) unreasonable expenditure on equipment, (c) insufficient care in 

 selection of tenants and the subsequent supervision of, their proceedings, (d) an 

 undue proportion of the general Small Holdings expenses of the Council being 

 charged to the scheme ; 



(iii) that the Council have in the case of holdings let used their best endeavours to 

 obtain rents fixed at amounts which might reasonably be expected to be suffi- 

 cient to recoup to the Council all expenses incurred in the acquisition of the 

 land (including repayment of capital where the land is purchased) or in the 

 adaptation or subsequent management of the land ; 



(iv) that the Council have in the case of holdings sold conformed with the require- 

 ments of the Small Holdings Acts ; 



(v) that the Council have taken full advantage of their borrowing powers ; 



(vi) that the Council have acted reasonably in carrying out the scheme ; 



(vii) in the case of loss on a scheme prepared under section 3 (3) of the Small 

 Holdings and Allotments ^Acts, 1907, that the total receipts of the Council 

 under the Small Holdings Acts for the current financial year (with any balance 

 of such receipts brought forward from the previous year) will be insufficient to 

 defray their expenditure under the said Acts unless the Council receive the 

 contribution applied for. 



(3). The Treasury reserves a right to make independent enquiry into the circum- 

 stances if it thinks fit. 



The disease known as " blindness " (Helminthosporium 

 gramineum) in barley and oats has been described in this 

 Journal (September, 1905, Vol. xii., 

 Blindness in p. 347), and the treatment recommended 

 Barley. was the sprinkling of the seed with 1 per 



cent, of formalin in water, thoroughly 

 turning and mixing the grain so that all of it comes in contact 

 with the solution. Treatment of the seed with copper 

 sulphate or by steeping it in hot water was also mentioned. 



According to some experiments described in Farmers Bulletin, 

 No. 5, issued by the Agricultural Department of Cambridge 

 University, seed dressed with 10 per cent, copper sulphate 

 was found to germinate slowly, so that the crop was several 

 days later and more irregular than the others. Formalin 

 had no bad effect upon the seed and was nearly as effective, 

 while treatment with "SAR" (a mixture of sulphur, alkali 

 and resin, see Journal, August, 1906, p. 289) and Jensen's 

 hot-water method (see Leaflet 92) were much less effective. 

 In 1907, formalin was again used at two strengths. In the 



