Show LIGHT ON CAUSES CAUS OF CORN ROT I s Diseases Found Distributed Throughout the Corn Belt Diseases Can Be Bc Greatly Reduced by Properly Balancing Fertilizing Elements in Soil and by Using Selected Seed Prepared by the United States Slate Department Department Depart Deput- ment of ot Agriculture The Time severity se of the tile rout root stalk und and i j i jear ear rots of corn curn diseases discuses found to tu be bemore bemore be bemore more or less widely distributed throughout the corn belt can cun be greatly reduced by properly balancing the fertilizing elements clements In the soil soli and by planting selected strains of corn These conclusions are ore the result of ot t In investigations tI curried t on by th the United States Department of ot Agriculture ture lure In operation co with a number of ot state stale experiment stations In the past It t was not thought that j the tho corn root was WU particularly seas tire the to tl the balance of the various clements elements ele cle- ments In the thc soil but now the damage caused b by these ruts rots Is believed to depend ill largely upon these conditions and upon UlIm climatic factors AI Also o the the- nature of elf the plant Itself what itself what plant breeders call the tilt genetic composition hits Ilias has much to do with Its susceptibility It ity or rt resistance to these rots rats In the experimental fields self fertilized strains of corn of or many different varieties are ure showing shoving peculiarities formerly formerly for for- merly regarded n. n as us symptom symptoms of root stalk and ear car rots ros mind and many strains lire are being bein heln Isolated which even e though self fart self fertilized for generations show resistance to the organisms associated associated as as- wit with h the rots Reducing the time losses train from these tots iota Is u complex problem requiring much more inure Investigation At present the department can go little timer father titan limn to say suy that primarily It Involves Involve u careful consideration of iron environ environment I e D ment soil soli fertility and the nature of ut the particular strain of corn |