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Potato Rot Caused by Insects

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 2.

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Potato Rot Caused by Insects

It is said that investigations into the nature of the potato rot have brought to light the fact, that it is created by insects imperceptible to the eye, but innumerable in quantity, which lay their eggs in the stem and send the virus down to the root. A little black speck the size of a pin-head, under the microscope, turns out to be full two hundred ferocious animals of the beetle form and shape.