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Show Ohio Wheat Now Safer From Black Stem Rust Eradication of more .than two million common barberry bushes in Ohio In the past decade has ren dered wheat growing safe from black stem rust disease in practically practi-cally all of the important wheat producing sections of the state. A s-un ey of the Ohio wheat crop by W. G. Stover, plant pathologist for the Ohio State university, shows that rust epidemics are local and tew this year. Only in one locality was the wheat crop ruined by black stem rust. Ten years ago fields lost from Infections of the disease were common, com-mon, Stover declares. The common barberry is the host to the organism that causes wheat rust, in early spring. Eradication of the bushes greatly reduces possibility pos-sibility of rust epidemics. Wherever in Ohio severe local outbreaks of wheat rust occur, a search will discover common barberry bar-berry nearby. Funds for the destruction de-struction of the bushes are provided pro-vided by the state and federal governments. gov-ernments. |