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Forest City Cases— At Forest City in the same county a hedge of 

 the purple leaved barberry on the Thorson place was not removed. 

 There was plenty of evidence of old ?ecial spots on the barberry 

 leaves and for two blocks in each direction an abundance of uredo 



Fig. 47. — Barberries on the Secor place, Forest City. 



stage on red top (Agro'stis alba) and also on timothy (Phleum pra- 

 tense and Hordeiim jubatwn). If the infection on the timothy was 

 not direct from the barberry leaves, it must have been carried from 

 the Hordeum jubafitm. The same thing was true for wild grasses 

 in the vicinity of the Emanuel Lutheran church. I next visited 

 the south side of the city along the road crossing Lime Creek, about 



