Show Plant Diseases Cause i Heavy Annual Losses I Disease of plants in the United States tes reduce crop yields to growers often to a serious and ind sometimes o 0 oa n dl disastrous degree Pathologists t of the United State States Department of Agriculture are re ir now c ng th statistiCS and nd making makins the e for last year icar ear which will be Ie the eleven cleven ti if I report of such losses loss The sever severity severity Ity of diseases varies caries from year to ear to year ear but the record for e something something of a suggestion of what wh may be expected in the 1927 1931 report In 1926 disease is Ie estimated o 0 have cause 1 a on in of the wheat t crop of more than 7 pI pe cent with bunt as the most moat ing single disease Damage to ne from all diseases mounted amounted to ones about 1 per cent rul ut barley suffer suffel ad 1 worse orse with nearly ne 0 G per cent redo redu lion in yield and with Ith eI cO ll smut the worst dl e About J i duchon in m yield of oats oate is 11 d with Ith stem ruc ills ills- aD and 1015 loose and cov coy r 1 rell ell ed smut c e for tor most of th- th Ih I loss 1050 Corn Corp I d-I di duct lR ea accounted fn nearly neally 13 per cent reduction in with ear oar rots responsible for more than half hilf hll the damage Tennessee growers lost about 30 per cent of f their crop crOll lar largely cl through root and 1 er ear rots and Missouri Pennsylvania and South Carolina losses losse ranged f r from irom 28 per ncr cent to 21 per ner cent In the th tr truck ck crops are affected with i a large laife var rely lety of s but late blIght caus caused caused ed I injuries e es mated at mor mar th r G 0 con cen e 01 H a t tr tc al reduction m in ini M Ii o 0 mor mor- mor then per cent With s 1 si i i tHe tE ss sa ed to toara ton ara n han 10 per c tt t t ind d beans he nen y G 6 per cent f Cotton totton n lured by it al s I si sired Il ired red red i a reo uon on in 11 yield due to d dig dig- di of nelly nc 15 per cent v r i i r the exception of a few fewS s tes S suffered only oily comparatively comp slIght losses but the apple crop re i amounted to more thin than 10 per cent and ind nd peach and ind pear in 11 wele about 8 per pel cent each Lach Department nt of agriculture As clen clentI tI tilts are constantly studying these thle di elsea with Ith a view to devising ire of cure or control or to cumin ate losses by tho the or breedI breeding breed some I m ing of resistant rIches In some of the most seriously affected crop ways ys have ha been devised deviled c 1 by which can cnn prevent p or minims these lose los e I |