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Show Fungi Choke Out Crops. It has been announced that after experiments ex-periments lasting 13 years Prof. H. L. Boley of the agricultural college ol the University of North Dakota, discoverer dis-coverer of the flax sickness and cure which has rejuvenated the fields of Russia and older parts of the United States, has discovered the five distinct dis-tinct types of parasites which cause the varieties of wheat sickness. This sickness has made lands seemingly seem-ingly barren throughout the world, and is gradually choking the pro rata of crops in the present wheat growing grow-ing countries. Professor Boley says the fungi resembles re-sembles in shape and In reaction on plant life the tuberculosis germ which afillots human life, but that the cure ia . easier, being nothing less than. .a correct cor-rect rotation of crops, being chiefly clover, corn and potatoes, until testa of land show the absence of parasitical parasiti-cal fungi. |