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Treatment of smuts of oats and wheat

by: Swingle, Walter T. (Walter Tennyson), 1871-1952

Publication date: 1892

Topics: Oats Diseases and pests, Wheat Diseases and pests, Cereal smut diseases, fungal diseases of plants, smut diseases, hot water treatment, potassium, sulfides, copper sulfate, Oats -- Diseases and pests, Wheat -- Diseases and pests

Publisher: Washington [D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Vegetable Pathology : G.P.O.

Collection: usda-farmersbulletin; usdanationalagriculturallibrary; fedlink

Contributor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Language: English

Rights: The contributing institution believes that this item is not in copyright.

Volume: no.5

8 pages, 1 leaf of plates : 23 cm

Smuts are minute parasitic plants belonging to the great group fungi. By their action they cause diseases of higher plants. The two smuts which cause the greatest damage in the United States, and which for this reason will be chiefly considered here, are the loose smut of oats and the stinking smuts of wheat

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Includes bibliographical references (page 8)