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perhaps the majority, come from Scotland, but two bad 

 cases came from Stoke-on-Trent, and a third from near 

 Taunton. 



As regards extension, the worst area reported to the Board 

 was the Hebrides. A writer in the neighbourhood of 

 Stornoway declares that both early and late potatoes were 

 affected, and that the inhabitants, when spoken to about the 

 disease, treated the matter quite lightly, and assured him 

 that the same thing has often been noticed before in wet 

 seasons. New seed, however, brought from Dundee and 

 planted there was not affected. A correspondent from Fyvie 

 reports the disease in a small patch of Ashleaf potatoes in 

 his garden. He believed it had lessened the crop, but 

 he had also noticed it in a very heavy crop of Duke of 

 York. Another correspondent at Strathaven reports a 

 slight attack, "only a few in a pail full." In this case 

 they were growing in a light soil. A third from 

 Coatbridge says fully 75 per cent, of his crop — a patch of 

 British Queen — were affected. A fourth, from Biggar, says, 

 "They are not all like the specimen ; some have nothing 

 wrong with them." A writer from Fifeshire says, "They 

 are all over the garden. We had a few last season, but they 

 are very bad this year." The case at Forfar was only in its 

 incipient stage. The Peebleshire case was fairly bad. The 

 grower had been using the same potatoes for seed for five 

 or six years. Of the Cumberland cases, one at Penrith and 

 one at Carlisle revealed no fact of special interest, but in a 

 second case from Carlisle, the Board were informed that 

 they were grown in a garden very much shaded, where they 

 would get the drip from high trees. The soil is dry, with 

 a stiff subsoil. They were bought from a neighbouring 

 farm, where a large percentage was also attacked, though 

 not so severely. 



Eight cases were reported from different parts of Lanca- 

 shire. In one at Rishton the soil was loamy, with a few 

 ashes in places. The potatoes had not been diseased the 

 year before. At Great Harwood potatoes had been planted 

 in two small plots, one only of which was considerably 

 affected. At Church one lot of Ashleaf was so badly 

 diseased that none were fit for use. The other lots, Scottish 



