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ilies, and should improve our houses and their sanitary con- 

 ditions. He wished the doctor would say something about 

 smut or rusts, blights and mildews, which are transferred 

 from weeds to grain. 



Dr. Wiswall — Tliese rusts are a fungoid growth, paras- 

 ites which take the life of the vegetable and starve it to 



death. 



