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Show DAMAGE TO POTATO GROWERS Disease "Which Causes Dry Rot Spreads While Tuber:. Are In Storage How to Prevent. Dry rot is causing a great deal of damage to potato growers. If the stem tmd of a diseased potato is shaved off brown threadlike strands may be sqen extending into the potato. This disease dis-ease which causes rot grows while the potatoes are In . storage. When this diseased seed is planted, the new po-, po-, tatoes In the field become diseased. Much of this may be. prevented by cutting off the stem end of the potato, po-tato, care being taken to remove all the discolored part. Then dip the seed in a solution of formalin, 1 pint to 30 gallons of water, or corrosive sublimate, sub-limate, 1 part to 1,000 parts of water. wa-ter. Plavie the potatoes in a gunny sack and submerge them for two hours When removed from the solution, so-lution, spread the potatoes on a plat-Jorin plat-Jorin to ary. After being treated potatoes should pot be placed in anything which has couuiued untreated seed. |