Excerpt from Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India: The Wilt Disease of SafflowerThe most practicable directions of control, therefore, are, firstly, the careful collection and destruction of infected plant material and, secondly, a very deep ploughing to secure the burial of any remaining sclerotia to a depth of more than Careful and clean weeding can prevent the rapid spread of the disease in the field.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.