Bean AxthI'Lvcnose. 



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locally given to the anthracnose, it is still one and the same disease that 

 most bean growers have in mind. The disease is readily recognized 

 by the appearance which it gives to the infected pods, and it is here 

 that the trouble is usually first recognized. Fig. 2 1 7 shows the too familiar 



Fig. 217.— -Anthracnose spots or cankers on the pods. The 

 fungus in these cankers penetrates through the pod into the 

 bean. 



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