Morgan County News | 1941-12-26 | Page 9 | Oat Blast

oat blast it has been shown experimentally say T johnson and A M brown in scientific agriculture that the mount amount a of oat blast is readily influenced mua by the nutritional conditions of the oat plant from the time the spike lets are initiated until just prior to the emergence of the panicle any adverse influence on the normal nutritional conditions of the plant during this period tends to increase the amount of 0 blast at this stage of growth the amount of blast has been experimentally increased by 1 reducing the water supply 2 withholding mineral nutrients sa 3 artificially injuring the leaves 4 leaf injury caused by rust and 5 growing oat plants under progressively gres diminishing day length