16 CEREAL RUSTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Proof. Scarcely a county in the State is free from rust, but it appears 

 to be most abundant in Lincoln, Jones, Milton, Catoosa, Hart, Kau- 

 dolph, Bartow, Henry, Marion, and Sumter counties. 



Minnesota. — Xot much information is at hand concerning rust in this 

 State, but it is known tliat in certain years both wheat and oats are 

 greatly injured. The Fifes and the Blue Stem are the standard varie- 

 ties of wheat generally grown. White Russian oats is said by some to 

 be rust resistant. Reports of rust have been received especially from 

 Stearns, Fillmore, Renville, Ottertail, and Watonwan counties. 



loica. — So great has been the damage from rust in this State that in 

 some parts wheat growing has been gradually abandoned principally 

 from this cause. In Buena Vista County it is reported that there has 

 been an average annual loss of 10 per cent of the crop during the past 

 twenty-two years. This severity of the rusts is doubtless due to the 

 practice of spring sowing, so common in the State. The great desid- 

 eratum for Iowa in the way of cereals is a good, hardy wheat like the 

 hard red wheats from south central Russia, as the Ghirkas, Crimean, 

 Tx, etc. The amount of oats sown in the State as compared with 

 wheat is becoming quite large, but rust often destroys this crop also. 

 It is always the black stem rust that is particularly injurious. Rust is 

 pretty evenly distributed over the State, but it is probably particularly 

 abundant in Fremont, Buena Vista, Des Moines, Dallas, Clay, Butler, 

 Crawford, Cerro Gordo, Appanoose, Buchanan, Cedar, Cherokee, 

 Greene, Franklin, Emmet, Allamakee, and Plymouth counties. 



Missouri. — There is considerable rust in this State, but not much is 

 known concerning the relative proi^ortions of leaf rust and stem rust 

 in cases of great injury. Mediterranean wheat is considered to be 

 rather rust resistant. Oats is often much injured. Rust seems espe- 

 cially common in Christian, Crawford, Bollinger, Carroll, Atchison, 

 Iron, Oregon, Dent, Dekalb, Franklin, Carter, Hickory, Livingston, 

 Mercer, Sullivan, Daviess, Madison, Grundy, Kodaway, Gasconade, 

 Linn, Jeflersou, and Perry counties. 



Xorth Dakota. — Wheat does not seem to be commonly damaged in 

 this State, although leaf rust is always present and is sometimes 

 abundant. Oats, however, is often injured. White Russian oats is 

 thought to be somewhat rust resistant. The Fifes and Blue Stem (Vel- 

 vet Bald Blue Stem) are almost the only varieties of wheat known by 

 the majority of the farmers. By far the greater jiroportion of the 

 cereals of the State is, of course, grown in the extreme eastern part, 

 in or near the fertile James River Valley, and the rusts naturally occur 

 in greatest abundance in that region. Nevertheless the orange leaf 

 rust and occasionally the stem rust also are found far westward. Much 

 rust is reported, esj)ecially from Nelson, Grand Forks, Cass, Richland, 

 Steele, McHenry, and Kidder counties. 



South Dakota. — In this State, as in North Dakota, it is, as a rule, too 

 dry, cool, and breezy for rusts to do much damage, but nevertheless 



