Lessons from the grain-rust epidemic of 1904 / by Mark Alfred Carleton.
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture,
1905.
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| Series: | Farmers' bulletin (United States. Department of Agriculture) ;
no. 219. |
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Table of Contents:
- The nature of the rust doing damage
- Reasons for unusual abundance of rust in 1904
- Planting seed damaged by rust
- The use of rusted straw in stock feeding
- Varieties of cereals resistant to rust
- Early varieties of grain that escape rust
- The importance of growing hard winter wheats
- Seed selection with reference to rust resistance
- Drainage and clean cultivation
- Infection from rusted grasses.