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Report  on  Wheat- Mildew. 
Abstract  of  Replies  received  in  Answer  to  Inquiries  as  to  Prevalence  oi 
Mildew,  and  the  Conditions  under  which  it  is  Developed — continued. 
I. 
II. 
III. 
IV. 
Name  and  Address 
Reply  to  Queries  as 
County. 
of 
to  Prevalence  of 
Extracts  from  Replies  to  other  Questions. 
Correspondent. 
Mildew. 
6.  Berks. 
7.  Do. 
8.  Do. 
10.  Do. 
11.  Cam  is. 
Hutchinson, 
N.  Gr.,  contd. 
King,  J.  G., 
Beedon, 
Newbury. 
Lanfear,  C., 
Avington, 
Hungerford. 
9.  Bucks.. 
Fowler,  J.  K., 
Aylesbury. 
Treadwell, 
John, 
Upper  Win- 
chendon. 
Cook,  M., 
LittleDown- 
ham,  Ely. 
Farm  subject 
to  mildew, 
great  injury 
in  1879, 
1880,  1881. 
In  1879  great 
injury,  and 
more  or  less 
since  1874. 
My  farm  occa- 
sionally suf- 
fers— parts 
of  the  vale 
are  subject — 
particularly 
during  the 
last  5 years 
and  especi- 
ally in  1881. 
In  1880  I suf- 
fered con- 
siderably, 
and  in  1881 
slightly. 
Not  to  a great 
extent,  with 
the  excep- 
yard-manure  immediately  before 
ploughing.  The  turnips  wen 
fed  by  sheep  penned  at  nigh: 
after  spending  the  day  in  the 
water-meadows  — thin  tillering 
crops  suffer  most. 
Strong  red  flinty  soil.  Nurserj 
wheat  sown  after  broad  clover 
on  which  sheep  had  been  folded- 
and  farmyard-manure  applied- 
thin  crops  most  liable. 
The  high-lying  lands  most  injuree 
(200-300  feet  above  sea).  Soi 
a thin  gravel,  with  a slight 
mixture  of  clay.  Wheat  usuallj 
sown  after  grass  (one  year’s  ley) 
Natural  and  artificial  manure; 
are  applied.  Nitrate  of  sodc 
makes  the  plant  more  liable  ix. 
mildew  than  any  other  manure 
Sorts  of  wheat — Trump,  Bough- 
Chaff,  Golden  Drop.  The  finei 
sorts  most  subject — thin  sowing 
or  defective  plant  renders  the 
crop  more  susceptible.  Wheat 
after  mangolds,  rape,  or  turnip; 
is  seldom  blighted.  Bain  afte 
dry  weather  and  hot  sunshim 
just  at  the  edge  of  harvest,  in 
variably  produce  mildew. 
Wheat  after  clover  is  more  likeb 
to  mildew  than  after  other  crops 
as  the  plant  is  often  thin. 
The  worst  was  a piece  of  Scholey' 
Square  Head  after  clover- 
rather  a thin  plant. 
The  field  in  question  is  partly  fe 
and  partly  strong  “ skirt  ” lane 
The  latter  is  underdrained,  an 
