Show WILL PLANT NEW KIND ASPARAGUS Small quantities of the stock of a type of ot asparagus that is so 50 resistant to rust that It I Is practically free from Injury even when exposed to severe severo Infection are are now available a for distri button by tho the United States State department department depart depart- ment mont of ot agriculture to growers for trial only Word to this effect has Just been received in Salt Snit Lake This type has bas been developed by the department In operation co with the Massachusetts experiment station Growers Growers' who desire to avail themselves themselves themselves them them- selves of at the opportunity to try It are asked to take tak tho the matter up with their county a agent ent or state tural turn college with whom the department depart depart- ment silent desires to co operate cooperate to secure a II fair test between it and some Home standard standard stand stand- ard variety such as Reading Giant or Palmetto In the present distribution preference prefer prefer- enco ence will be given to those sections in which rust Is a serious senous problem but tho the new strains havo have been tested for other qualities than rust resistance and quality they aro are superior to stocks now nov novin in common use in regions where I rust Is' Is Isor or minor importance I The use of rust resistant strains has haR already done much ranch to lessen the loss 1058 from asparagus rust Certain sections sections sec sec- lions are arc now largely free tree from the tho tho disease because tho the susceptible types have o been eliminated from the fields and replaced b by others of ot a more rC resistant character such as the tho Ar- Ar or Palmetto varieties These strains do not suffer greatly from rust unless they arc aro near fields of or the old susceptible kinds Under such circumstances cir cir- however ve even the resistant resistant resist resist- ant types now novo in common use uso aro are liable to severe attacks This danger It Is believed does docs not exist In the latest typo developed by the department depart depart- ment bout The Tue seed now no available for tor tion Is from carefully selected pedigreed greed plants from the best rust resist ant parent plants found in the course courso hot or of the breeding experiments which have havo o a been carried earned on sinco 1906 All this stock II Is descended from one male malo Plant crossed on various vanous plants This male plant plane has haR been named Wash 1 ton and all the strains developed to l of or some qualifying terms to hid hid- tion n qualifying terms to Indicate Indi Indi- cate their history |