Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-04-12

E2O UOO. 600. The total losses sus-
tained throughout the United Kingdom
from the disease from first to last have
been positively enormous. not to speak
of the profits which have not beer made
because of the growing restriction of
the era of cultivation.
It is now well on for forty years
since the d seasc was observed in this
country. TIE potato crop of Belgium
were the first TO suffer, the disease hav-
ing been noticed in Lci0c about 1912
Two years later it was heard of in the
United States OF America. 1t is said
the potato plague was first noticed In
this country i'm the Isle of Wight in the
year 1874, aud that it then spread with
such rapidity that m the course of n few
DAYS it was noticed all over the south
of England, and next in various parts
of Scotland. Some economists are OF
opinion that the disease was in exist
ence before th' SC years, but that it was
not until JOut the time mentioned that
it gathered force and spread with such
"apidity. The spores of the fungus
(Ptr0H0spora jnteSta31S), it has been said,
are produced in enormous quantities.
'til't ttbNllN AlObNfNl ~ NlC N'lI'' ty'A wv
the country. 1t may be here stated
FOR the benefit of those persons who
/ Pave never seen any manifestation of the
disease, that II appears on the leaf OF
the potato like u patch of bloom. and "a
! field of potatoes will produce countless
millions of individual spores in a few
! brief hours, and rs has been Indicated.
! these will cover division of country in
days time, and spread ruin among
| the potato crops.
! Mr.. Jensen, who has mastered the
subject, gives a graphic account of the
rapidity with which the disease spreads.
One spore Of the fungus, he says, can
. produce 4 mOld-spOt in the course OF
four or five days, and by using mi
crOScope it may easily he aScertained
that such spot generally contains sew
! era, thousand spores, each one of which
will ON the average produce about ten
Swarm-SpOreS. and if all of these spores
were to rive rise to new spots Ave days
more would increase these to millions.
In the course of other ten DAYS the
millions would have become billions,
and for each fifth day three cyphcrs al
least would require to be added to the
figures to reach the number of spores
produced by the preceding generations
Under such circumstances Of rapio
multiplication, how is it possible to de
wise a remedy or to block out the dis
ease?
The "home of the potatoe' is said tC
be in South America, bat SO many diff
fercut opinions have been promulgated
regarding its incidence Us TO render j
unsafe for public writer TO commi
himself TO anV of the numerous thcO
= ries which have been vcntured upon &
TO It's cause-as TO its cure, il seems L
be Il toregOne conclusion that the DIS
3 ease is incurablc The state' of tn
weather is often advanced rs facto
y in the question of dealing with tn
( potato. Tell me, - said an intelligen
/ Scottish farmer, 'what the weathe
} will be from the middle OF June to tn
, close Of October and | will Spae tn
I fortune of the crop for the year. Th
{ iaca that the weather is a factor in tn
5 account cannot be gainsaycd, and W
90 have seen in more than one Year tha
! the prospects Of fields which locke
bright enough at the close Of jul
t were destroyed by the beginning G
/ September. 1t is quite certain, iudgin
, from what we have been told 10y eN
{ pcrjs, that rain or moisture OF som
Z kind, such rs dew, PLAYS pant in tn
rpening Of the fungus. with regar
, to the appearance Of the blight ON tn
b ;uLcr. /, !, thought to be carried dow
= into the drills 10y rain; and Jensen
S plan OF wen-pr1tectcd roots has bee
I placed before the farmers as a rralI
= practical remedy. We have "lread
, given detailS Of the systems OF llat AN
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