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ABSTRACT SANDAL has long been a valuable forestry product in southern India and the mysterious disease termed ‘spike’ has been the subject of investigation during the past quarter of a

century. Various bodies interested in sandal are collaborating, such as the Madras Forest Department, the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, the Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun

and others. A report on the progress made during the half-year ending September 30, 1932, entitled “Investigations on the Spike-Disease of Sandal” has been issued by the Institute of

Science, Bangalore. The sporadic attacks of this pest have a strange parallel to those of foot and mouth disease in Great Britain. A recrudescence of the disease in an epidemic form has been

noticed in the Beedamaruthupatti spike area. Pollarding, which has been carried out on a fairly large scale in the Galigattam and Manchi areas, has yielded significant data. So far, Manchi

has the maximum percentage of disease-masking sandal plants. The entire freedom from infection of a few areas, Sanamavu and Thalli in North Salem and Chickabettakere in Coorg, has been

established by pollarding. More detailed technical contributions will appear as scientific papers in the _Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, Dehra Dun Forest Research Publications_,

and elsewhere. Meanwhile it is a valuable departure to issue progress reports so that the various investigators studying the pest, which causes so heavy a financial loss, should have early

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