Fungi and fungicides; a practical manual, concerning the fungous diseases of cultivated plants and the means of preventing their ravages . until the seed is covered severalinches deep. Stir the solution before pouring on thegrain, and thoroughly mix the seed several times beforetaking the latter out of the solution. Then spread out to dry. It will probably be best to sow theseed as soon as possible, and before it becomes thor- THE OATS EUST 193 ougbly dry. The hot water treatment, however, isprobably the better one. Literature.—An account of Professor Jensensexperiments may be found in the Jou
Fungi and fungicides; a practical manual, concerning the fungous diseases of cultivated plants and the means of preventing their ravages . until the seed is covered severalinches deep. Stir the solution before pouring on thegrain, and thoroughly mix the seed several times beforetaking the latter out of the solution. Then spread out to dry. It will probably be best to sow theseed as soon as possible, and before it becomes thor- THE OATS EUST 193 ougbly dry. The hot water treatment, however, isprobably the better one. Literature.—An account of Professor Jensensexperiments may be found in the Jouroal of the EoyalAgricultural Society of England (v. 24, part II, 1888).The following publications also contain accounts of thisdisease : Kansas Experiment Station, Bulletins 15, 22 ;rei^ort for ]889, ]3p. 213-288; Indiana Experiment Sta-tion, Bulletin 35 ; North Dakota Experiment Station,Bulletin No. 1; United States Department of Agricul-ture, Farmers Bulletin No. 5. The Oats Rust The rust of oats is essentially the same as that ofwheat, being caused by the same fungi, and the accountgiven on Pages 200-201 will suffice for 15 FUNGI AFFECTING WHEAT The Bunt or 5tinkin:g Smut Tilletia foeteiis This is the most destructive smut affecting differs from the loose smuts in that the indiyidualkernels are affected, instead of the whole head. Accord-ing to Professor Arthur, wheat j^lants injured by this dis-ease *^ thrive about as usual, the head fills and the chaffis distended, as if with normally plump grain. A closeobserver will notice, however, that already before wheatheads out the diseased plants have a darker green colorand somewhat more luxuriant appearance. When thegrain is only six inches high or so, this difference inappearance is quite striking, the affected plants beingdarker green and taller, as if droppings of manure hadforced them to extra growth. The growth does not con-tinue so long, however, as in the healthy plants, so thatthey do not usually becom
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