. Bulletin . I* -* I#i . MM :fit^^>f jlflilii ^^ ?iiiiilm Mm Ci-ti-:^i . > . 3, -? ;, - S -? if :,- i^HsiJ!: M m iiii mmmmmm ? liliiii; j||i| ill iil iffiM(i<f;. & 3 o < 1 a J, ^ d o G Xi s o ^ I o a . o ^rt POTATO BLIGHT. The potato crop is liable to serious losses from two sources,which losses are to a great extent preventable. These twosources of loss are the Colorado beetle, or potato bug, and theblight or rust. Every farmer knows how to deal with the potatobug. Paris green is the sovereign remedy, but it is only withina comparatively few years that a s
. Bulletin . I* -* I#i . MM :fit^^>f jlflilii ^^ ?iiiiilm Mm Ci-ti-:^i . > . 3, -? ;, - S -? if :,- i^HsiJ!: M m iiii mmmmmm ? liliiii; j||i| ill iil iffiM(i<f;. & 3 o < 1 a J, ^ d o G Xi s o ^ I o a . o ^rt POTATO BLIGHT. The potato crop is liable to serious losses from two sources,which losses are to a great extent preventable. These twosources of loss are the Colorado beetle, or potato bug, and theblight or rust. Every farmer knows how to deal with the potatobug. Paris green is the sovereign remedy, but it is only withina comparatively few years that a successful treatment has beenfound for the blight. It seems now, however, that an effectiveremedy has been found in the Bordeaux mixture. The blight is caused by the growth in the potato vines ofminute parasitic plants, known as fungi. There are two dis-tinct species of fungi which produce the blight in potatoes,—one,known botanically as Macrosporiian sohuii, causes what is nowknown as the early blight, the other, Phytophthora infestans,causes the late blight which has been the most common anddestructive. Blight, rust, and rot are the various names bywhich it has been called. This dibulletin22newh
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