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Show CORN DISEASE CAUSEI5F0UND Discovery Will Increase Drop Ten Per Cent, Is Belief of Experts DBS MOINES. la., Jan 18. Discovery Discov-ery by chemists of the Onlted Slates department of agriculture of tho underlying un-derlying cause vf the destructive corn disease, "root rot," will onablo corn producing stales to lnerease their crops probably 10 per cent. E. T Meredith, Mer-edith, secretary o the department, said today In telling of the discovery- Thi Information recently obtained Is considered among the more Important Import-ant agricultural discoveries of recent years, he wild. The Investigations were completed about ten days ago. tine of the effects of the disease. Mr Meredith "aid. has been to make j "rheumatic" and weak the earl matured ma-tured grain, chosen unwittingly by growers for seed. The root rot is caused by insufficient Add In the stalk Juices, ho suld. The 'stalks are What are known ils "rheumatic" "rheu-matic" and mature early. They have been Insufficiently nouiished, and the weakness of the parent stalk is passed pass-ed on In the seed. Corn ''rheumatuun' can not be detected de-tected in the cured ear. it is said, but careful examination of germinated seed used for lestlng will disclose indications in-dications of root Vot. |