Show BATTLE ON BARBERRY ls l's IS BEING CONTINUED Approximately Plants Destroyed in in- 1919 Federal Federal and State Authorities h Combine Combine Com Corn bine to Protect Wheat Against Black Stem Rust Rust Other Other Crops Are Attacked Prepared by the the United States Department Department Depart Depart- ment meat of ot Agriculture Approximately common barberry bushes were dug up and destroyed de do- during 1910 1010 in connection with the combined efforts of federal and andst st stale e authorities to protect wheat ag against black stem stern rust mst which cannot survive unless it Is able to spend one period in tn its life cycle on the leaves i of the common barberry For this work the past year the federal government government gov gov- appropriated The territory In which the fight was carried carried car car- ried ned on comprises Colorado Indiana Illinois Iowa Ohio Michigan Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota Montana 1 Nebraska North Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- Da- Da kota South Dakota Wisconsin and Wyoming which states supplemented the federal funds to a considerable de- de combined expenditures were ware small In comparison with the size of the menace to wheat production by this disease C Cereal real disease experts In the tile United States department of agriculture estimate that the wheat crop of ot 1919 1910 in the United States was redu reduced ed bushels by black stem rust alone In addition to damage by scab and other r diseases This damage damage damage dam dam- age by black stem rust mst has only been exceeded In one previous season namely In iota when the total reduction reduction reduction tion of ot the wheat crop by this disease was bushels In addition to the 1919 1910 loss of bushels of wheat due to ravages of black stem rust rut there was a loss of bushels of oats and bushels of barley due to the same cause |