| Show Ohio Wheat Now Safer From Black Stem Rust Eradication of ot more than two million common barberry bushes In Ohio In the past decade has ren ren- rendered dered wheat growing safe from black stem rust disease In practIcally practically practically cally all nIl of the Important wheat producing sections of ot the state A of oC the Ohio wheat s sarvey crop by W G O Stover plant pathologist for the Ohio State university shows that rust epidemics s are local and few v this ye year rL Only n none In one locality was the wheat crop ruined by black stem rust Ten years ago fields lost from Infections of ot the disease se were common com com- common common mon Stover declares The common barberry Is the host to tho the organism that causes wheat rust In early spring EradicatIon ot of the bushes greatly reduces pos pos- possIbility posy possibility of ot rust epidemics Wherever In Ohio severe local outbreaks of oC wheat rust occur a search will discover common bar bar- barberry barberry barberry berry nearby Funds for the de de- destructIon de- de destruction destruction of oC the bushes are pro pro- provided provided provided vided by the tho state and federal gov go gov- gov governments governments |
