Show ohio wheat now safer from black Stem Rust eradication of more than two million common barberry bushes in ohio in the past decade lias has rendered wheat growing safe from black stem rust disease in practically all of the important wheat producing sections of the state A survey of the ohio wheat crop by W G St stover plant pathologist for the ohio state university shows that rust epidemics tire are local and few this year only in one locality was the wheat crop ruined by black stem rust ten years ago fields lost from infections of the disease were common stover declares the common barberry la Is the host to the organism that causes wheat rust in early spring eradication of the bushes greatly reduces possibility of rust epidemics wherever in ohio severe local outbreaks of wheat rust occur a search will discover common barberry nearby funds for the destruction of the bushes are provided by the state and federal governments |