Report on Rust in Wheat Experiments, 1892-3 - Daniel Mcalpine, Paperback

• Release Date   9/13/2013
• ISBN-13   9781236817211 | 978-1-236-81721-1
• ISBN   1236817214 | 1-236-81721-4
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Daniel Mcalpine
• This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...at the same time. Unfortunately the wheat crop is liable to the attacks of a number of fungi other than the rust, and the more important of these, from the farmer's point of view, are here enumerated, with suggestions as to mode of prevention or treatment as borne out by the results of experiments. ' The important fungus diseases found were smut, bunt, and ergot upon the following varieties of wheat, and in every instance rust was present as well:--TABLE VIII.--VARIETIES or WHEAT wrrn Suur, Bunr, AND EReor. I.--sMU'rs. Loose-smut (9). Stinking-smut or Bunt (6). Ergot (8). 55. Champlain Hybrid 96. Frampton 22. Belotourka 81. 165., Golden Drop, nine 82 Early Para 167. Leak s Rust-proof difi-erent plots 124. Golden Drop 176. Marshall's No. 7 17 3. Marshall's No. 4 131. Hard Winter Bush 177. Marsha1l's White 176. Marshall's No. 7 144. Hybrid Champion 209. Pride of Barossa 185. Missogen 209. Pride of Barossa 216. Pringle's Defiance 186. 239. Robin's Rust-proof l8'7.Mu1dy.vhea'. k 271.-246. Rural ew or er 2so. S''"'"'d1 247. No.52 Tuscan 271' 277. iSteinwedel 280. The term smut is used in such a loose sense by many and is applied to such different diseases that the first requisite is to define what we mean by it, and to know exactly what we are talking about. Smut is a general term applied to different though closely-allied diseases, and a distinction is usually made according to the plant it attacks, such as oat-smut, wheat-smut, maize-smut, onion-smut, potatosmut, 8:0. But even difierent smuts may appear on the same plant, such as the so-called loose-smut, stinking-smut, and flag-smut of wheat. Hence the necessity for accurately distinguishing between these, or, in...