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Show AFFECTS GROWTH OF POTATO Blight, Caualno Loas ef IJ.000,000 te Crop, Brought On by Haat and Toe Much Watsr. There Is welcome news from Dearer. Dea-rer. C. L. Fitch. InTestlKStor of tbe Colorado agricultural department, has made tbe Important dlaeovery that txceaal?e heat and too much water affected the srrowth on potato plants sf the fungus called fuaartum, which bllchted the erop of laat year. That bllitht caused a loss of many millions -the loss for Colorado alone Is placed st $$,000.600 not to spesk of the suf-fertnjt suf-fertnjt It oecasloned throughout the entire country, ssys the Philadelphia Press. Mr. Fitch's experiments wers conducted on an original and elaborate elabo-rate plan. Vaiioua plarts were subjected sub-jected to different deicreee of moisture. mois-ture. It was determined to an apparent ap-parent certainty that those which had too much heat and water were surely and quickly stranded by the funros. The remedy Is obrlous and simple; It lies mainly, for those sections where rainfall may be depended upon. In proper drainage and the use of such fertllliers ss will promote lesf erowth. For the Irrlrsted sections the problem is more difficult, though the solution seems assured, and fanners bar been already Instructed through special bulletins, bul-letins, how to regulate the water and to shade the potato beds. |
