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Show RUST CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON COAST Notice of the Pine Blister Rust conference confer-ence to be held In Portland, April 23 and 24, was received in Salt Lake yesterday by John B. Walker, state -crop pest expert. ex-pert. The conference in the coast city will be held under the auspices of the plant pathology branch of the war emergency emer-gency board. The white pine rust fungus has been spreading havoc throughout the eastern states until a quarantine on all gooseberry and curra nt hush shipments from points east of the Mississippi river was found imperative. The white pine rust spreads from gooseberry goose-berry and currant bushes, which it does not seem to harm particularly, to the white pine tree, which is in danger of extermination ex-termination from the pest. |