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Title: Newfoundland Quarterly 1909-11
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Evans, John J.
Subjects: Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and Periodicals
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Contributing Library: Memorial - University of Newfoundland

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he whole country should bereached by the new farming crusade. The people should bearoused in their thousands and tens of thousands. Nothingless would achieve the end sought, viz., the popularizing of farming education, and making it racy of the soil. Just as we regard educational effort as logically directedtowards the development of the native talent of Newfoundlandso we may regard farming education as a means of developingthe rich soil of the country and of securing its prosperity. Thissubject is well worth the best thought of the whole country.The Socialist will not appreciate this question except as it effectshis own cabbage garden: but the statesman will see it withnobler vision. It is Empire building in the truest sense. Sothen let all Newfoundland cry out with heart and voice—Success to agricultural enterprises— God speed the plough—andbless the harvests of honest peaceful industry THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY.—27. A Warnings-Public Notice, Look Out for the Potato Canker,
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FIG 2 -POTATO CANKEK. adherin* to the plant.B Two tubers natural size badly dis The Newfoundland Agricultural Board has ascertained that certain plots of potatoesin the neighbourhood of St. Johns areaffected by the dreaded Potato Canker disease. This is the same disease that was firstdetected at Red Island in Placentia Bay,about a year ago, and is so fatal in itseffects that if not immediately checked,the absolute impossibility of growingpotatoes in Newfoundland for years tocome is sure to result. The Agricultural Board therefore requests that all potato growers who mayobserve indications of disease in theircrop, will at once notify the Secretaryof the Agricultural Board at the officeof the Department of Agriculture andMines. The Agricultural Board recognizingthe incalculable injury that must accrueto the country if this disease be not immediately stamped out, earnestly requests all persons to aid the efforts nowabout to be made to effect this. In February last the AgriculturalBoard i

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