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TENTH REPORT. 
Remove the free cells before decomposition sets in. But this is not prac- 
tical, excepting to show the cause of injury. 
Remove the excretion by oxidation, boiling, shaking up with powdered 
talcum, carbon black, etc. 
Counteract the effect by supplying decomposing vegetable matter, e.g., 
barnyard manure, or other form of so-called fertilizer whose character should 
be known to be such as would remedy the particular disease. 
Agricultural College, April 17, 1908. 
