PLANT DISEASE
(British Official Wireless).
THE VALUE OF AEROPLANES. Trapping Of Fupgus Spore.
RUGBY, Sept. 27. The use of aeroplanep for fighting plant diseases was described at a meetmg of the Impqrial mycological conference ip London yesterday, Dr. Gtissoiv. a Canadian delegatq, said that epormqus losses were eaused ip the ivheat bel't by rust, ivhich tPPk an everage tatai of £5,000,000' a year, and in 1916, when tjiere was a had epidemiq, it cost the Domfnion £50,000,000. Aerqplanes were used for trapping slides, and mycologists foqud that sppres of rust ivere cQming from the sonth on air currents and their progrqss CQuUl be traced tbroughout the season. Dr. Gussoiv stated that ho bad trappcd fungus ppqre at 10,000 feet altitude and 90 per cent of these germinated.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 205, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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127PLANT DISEASE Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 205, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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