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THE twelfth annual report of the Department of Plant Pathology at the Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, Newton Abbott, Devon, considers the pests and diseases of plants from an essentially local aspect, which should be much appreciated by growers in Devon and Cornwall. Mr. L. N. Staniland, the advisory entomologist, contributes a general section upon the more common pests of farm and garden. He has made a special study of eelworm troubles. Methods of combating this pest are discussed at considerable length, and a thorough revaluation of the usual hot-water treatment has been made. It has been found that although eelworms are killed by seventeen minutes exposure to a temperature of 110°F., the technique of commercial treatment varies greatly. The usual period of three hours heating is shown to be inadequate in some cases, and various recommendations as to improved methods are made. Mr. A. Beaumont, the advisory mycologist, has made a further detailed study of the relation of potato blight to the weather of Devon, and has separate articles on “Tulip Fire and the Weather”, “Snapdragon Rust; Trials of Resistant Varieties”, and “Apple and Pear Fruit-rotting Fungi”.
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Plant Pathology in Devon and Cornwall. Nature 139, 146 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139146a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139146a0