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taining the greatest loss.” Infected barberry leaves were found when 
the field was inspected. 
Case 4. St. Joseph County. Mr. Bordner also reports the following: 
“Another striking case of damage was found in the field of Charles 
Bunch near Lakeville, and upon thorough investigation we found bar- 
berry in the neighbor’s back yard some ten rods away.” 
Case 5. Wayne County. A few miles east of Centerville stands a 
country church with a cemetery about eighteen rods from the building. 
A barberry hedge is growing on both sides of the walk leading from 
the church to the cemetery. Within a radius of about one-half of a 
mile from this hedge, especially on the windward side, all wheat fields 
were badly rusted. In the nearest field, on the McConaha farm, a 
prospective yield of thirty bushels of wheat to the acre was reduced to 
less than ten bushels. 
Case 6. Wayne County. W. O. Seoney, Boston Township, suffered 
considerable losses from wheat rust for many years. A couple of years 
ago the crop was nearly ruined. Mr. Seoney wrote to the Agricultural 
Experiment Station and asked for a specialist to examine the crop and 
determine, if possible, the cause of the trouble. When the investigator 
found that the unusually heavy infection was due to the stem rust he 
searched the vicinity for barberry bushes and found a large one twenty 
rods from the wheat field. The bush was immediately removed. Last 
year Mr. Seoney’s wheat was free from rust for the first time in many 
years, although a very heavy infection occurred in another section of 
the county not far from his farm. 
Case 7. Jasper County. A barberry hedge was found on a farm 
two and a half miles north of Rensselaer. A wheat field across the road 
was heavily rusted. (Reported by W. E. Leer.) 
Case 8. Rush County. The stem rust practically ruined the wheat 
crop in Orange Township on the farms of Jos. Brown, John Douthett, 
Chas. Owens and several others belonging to the same threshing ring. 
In one case the crop was a complete loss, as the grain did not even have 
any value as a stock feed. An investigation of the trouble resulted in 
locating an old abandoned nursery on a farm in the center of the affected 
community. Many barberry bushes formerly grew on this farm, but 
were dug up, as claimed by the owner, a couple of years ago. A further 
inquiry, however, disclosed the fact that a number of bushes were grow- 
ing along the border of the farm woodlot which were not removed until 
last summer, after rust infection had already taken place. It is prob- 
able that there are other bushes growing wild in this community which 
have come up from seeds scattered by birds. 
Case 9. Rush County. Two very severe cases of stem rust infec- 
tion were found on the farms of T. A. Coleman and Wm. Garten, situ- 
