442 State Horticultural Society. 



Upon the pods, sunken areas or pits are formed by the breaking 

 down of tissue beneath the epidermis. These are circular in shape and 

 sometimes irregular, formed by the coalescing of several circular areas. 

 They are large, dark in color, with purplish edges. Within these pits are 

 found small whitish dots known as acervuli. Their color is due to the 

 presence of a large number of small spores, by means of which the dis- 

 ease propagates itself. These spores are spread to other plants or 

 parts of the same plant by wind, insects or water. They then germinate, 

 sending a tube or hypha through the epidermis into the host plant. It 

 grows into all parts of the plant. 



The part of the fungus within the host plant is its vegetative body 

 or mycelium. The spores in the dots or acervuli are its fruits. 



When the mycelium is ready to fruit, numerous small branches 

 shoot up from parts of it beneath the darkened areas. Some of the 

 branches are black, spine-like, and do not bear fruits or spores. The 

 others are white and cut off white spores from their tips. These branches 

 elongate, raise the epidermis into small dots or acervuli which break, al- 

 lowing the spores to escape. These spores carry the disease over the 

 winter season. 



It has another way of wintering over. Its plant body or mycehum 

 in spreading through all parts of the plant grows into the seeds. Here 

 it lies dormant in the ripened seeds until they begin to grow. It then 

 grows out with the new plant parts. Hence beans from crops attacked 

 by this fungus should never be used as seed. 



In the autumn all rubbish from the field should be burned. Rotation 

 of crops also helps in killing out the disease. Bordeaux should be 

 used at intervals of a few weeks from the time the plant is small 

 until the pods are beginning to ripen. Damp places are to be avoided 

 •n planting. 



FRUIT GROWING IN MORGAN COUNTY, MISSOURI. 



(By S. P. Bailey, Versailles, Mo. Read at State Meeting, June 1905.) 



About midway between Kansas City and St. Louis is Morgan 

 county. Versailles, the county seat, a prosperous little town of 2,000 

 inhabitants, is located where the northern slope of the Ozarks meet 

 the prairie. 



A part of the town is built on the prairie and a part on the hills. 

 One lady puts it this way, "My front door is in town, while my back 



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