OCR Text |
Show New Diseases of Field and Vegetable Crops Fifteen new diseases of field and vegetable crops were reported In the United States during lli'J2, according to the plant disease survey of the Department De-partment of Agriculture. Twelve crops were affected. They were carrot, spinach, spin-ach, Swiss chard, lettuce, potato, radish, rad-ish, Chinese cabbage, bean, watermelon, water-melon, sweet potato, tomato and tobacco. tobac-co. Most of the new diseases appeared ap-peared In very restricted areas, seeming seem-ing to be the result of abnormal climatic cli-matic and similar conditions. |