| Show Barley Scab is Is I Cause of Loss I IClean Clean Culture and Crop Rotation Rotation Ro Ro- Ro- Ro tation Will Check Serious SeriOUS Serious Seri Seri- ous Ailment Prepared by the r f A tu D itA A dear clear no freckles on the face aCe ot of a field plowed In the fall rull Is re for mo most mos t farms u s. s Th Plus advice has hus become familiar ID In areas where the E European corn borer has been working It applies also to areas Oreas In which corn and winter r wheat are Important crops and In which barley barley bar bar- ley is a crop grown either for tor 8 sale le or for tor feeding Barley Burley scab has caused serIo serious toss losses In the central and east east- em era ern sections of the country Live Over Winter The United States Department of ot Agriculture Investigators have hae found I that the fungus causing scab lives lI I over winter Inter on bits of ot o nH lk or straw When these bits bit are ore covered thoroughly by ly the plowman the clean dean plowed field does not hn have ha e a freckled freckle appearance It has the uniform complexion com corn Indicative e of clean clenn culture culture- which has proved so desirable In checking the activity of ot barley scab the following season Investigators I found that on the average e In a anum number num ber of ot barley fields Gelds In northern Illinois 1111 Illi I nois the scab Infection was more than eight times as great in fields elds disked or poorly plowed as RS it was In barley harley I fields s sown on fields plowed clean In Inthe Inthe n the fall Crop rotation Is also helpful help help- ful In controlling barl barley y scab Feed It on Farm If It harvested har barley is seriously affected affected af af- by scab It is more profitable to feed It on the farm than to try to sell It at the ruinous discount grain buyers buyers buyers buy buy- ers must Impose Scabbed barley Is useless as HS hog feed Hogs reject It It or If they eat It it they suffer sutTer from diges digestive five tive disturbances Cattle and sheep however will relish a ration con containing contain tain ing a large larbe proportion of ot scabbed kernels kernels kernels ker ker- nels and suffer no ill effects |
