. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. June, 1921] DIGGING UP FACTS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE FARMS 23 A BILL To THE State of New Hampshire Potato diseases and pests $600,000 Apple Maggot and codling moth 200,000 Pests and diseases of hay, grain and forage crops 800,000 Abortion and tuberculosis of cattle 700,000 Hog cholera 50,000 White diarrhea of poultry 250,000 Gypsy moth and other forest pests 600,000 Other diseases and pests 300,000 Total .13,500,000 These charges are collected on the spot. Annual tribute on New Hampshire crops by plant and animal diseases and insect One of the tax co
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. June, 1921] DIGGING UP FACTS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE FARMS 23 A BILL To THE State of New Hampshire Potato diseases and pests $600,000 Apple Maggot and codling moth 200,000 Pests and diseases of hay, grain and forage crops 800,000 Abortion and tuberculosis of cattle 700,000 Hog cholera 50,000 White diarrhea of poultry 250,000 Gypsy moth and other forest pests 600,000 Other diseases and pests 300,000 Total .13,500,000 These charges are collected on the spot. Annual tribute on New Hampshire crops by plant and animal diseases and insect One of the tax collectors. agricultural crops of the state; and because of this lack of knowl- edge, the control in successive seasons was extremely variable, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Since that time a steadily in- creasing fund of information has been gathering in regard to the losses from these causes and the methods of control. Special researches on the diseases most dif&cult to control have brought results. For example, the Brooks spot of apple, a disease that had long caused considerable injury to fruit throughout New England and particularly in New Hampshire, was traced to a fungus not pre- viously known to have infected apples. Methods of preventing the development of the fungus were devised, and today in well- cared-for orchards losses due to it are no longer of material im- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. [Hanover, N. H. ] : New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
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