Fungi and fungicides; a practical manual, concerning the fungous diseases of cultivated plants and the means of preventing their ravages . a more or less distinct pink or orange coveringof the mycelium and spores of the fungus. Under ahigh power of the microscope thisfungus is seen to be composed of longcurved spores, as shown in Fig. to the botanists, it is aspecies of Fusisporium. The kernelsattacked by the fungus become mereshells, covered inside and out withmycelium (Fig. 83) and in passingthrough the thresher they are blownaway with the chaff. The yield issometimes greatly de
Fungi and fungicides; a practical manual, concerning the fungous diseases of cultivated plants and the means of preventing their ravages . a more or less distinct pink or orange coveringof the mycelium and spores of the fungus. Under ahigh power of the microscope thisfungus is seen to be composed of longcurved spores, as shown in Fig. to the botanists, it is aspecies of Fusisporium. The kernelsattacked by the fungus become mereshells, covered inside and out withmycelium (Fig. 83) and in passingthrough the thresher they are blownaway with the chaff. The yield issometimes greatly decreased. In1890 I saw a field of one hundredacres in Madison County, Ohio, con-sidered the finest wheat field in thecounty, which was expected, shortly before harvest, toyield thirty-five to forty bushels per acre, so severelyattacked by the disease that the yield was reduced to eight bushels per other fields, one oftwenty-five and the other offifty acres, were shrunkenin yield at least one-third,from the same cause. Thefungus apparently gainsaccess to the tender, unde-veloped kernel, sapping itslife and sending down feed-. FIG. OF WHEATSCAB. MAGNIFIED.
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