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prepared to say. However, lie says that there is less rust on low land 

 than on high land, and you may put this fact with the other and make 

 what you can out of it. ^lany people hurn the hrush at the end of the 

 year, and where this is done there is now little or no rust. In some in- 

 stances the owners, after burning the brush, run over the ground with 

 a disc cultivator, and this seems to do some good also. In a particu- 

 lar case, near Lincoln, the asparagus is grown in an orchard where 

 burning and other precautions cannot ho resorted to, and it is a fact 

 that there is more rust in this asparagus plot than elsewhere. Still 

 the season is one which is characterized by a small amount of rust on 

 the asparagus." 



Professor W. R. Shaw reports for Oklahoma: "I have neither seen 

 any of the rust nor received any report of its occurrence in Oklahoma 

 and Indian Territories, and Mr. Morris, our Horticulturist, informs 

 me that he has never met Avitli this rust in this region." 



Professor Saunders sends the following for South Dakota: "I have 

 nothing in particular to report with reference to the asparagus rust. 

 The only two patches of asparagus that I know of were so badly in- 

 fested last year that they were plowed up and destroyed last fall. A 

 few scattering volunteers in our timber claim were quite as badly in- 

 fested this year as was the patch of asparagus last year." 



For Xorth Dakota, Professor BoUey sends the following: ''This 

 time I am able to report to you that the asparagus rust is here with a 

 vengeance. I am unable to give you any information regarding the 

 influence of weather upon the disease. Last year we had a very dry 

 season. The plot at the College, which is a large one, rusted some time 

 in August, so as to be thoroughly brown. This spring has been an 

 extremely wet one, so there was an abundance of moisture in the 

 ground at all ])criods of the gTOwing season, and this ( ollcgc bed was 

 struck by rust so as to be thoroughly killed by the loth of August, 

 so dead that we cut it all down and are making some experiments as 

 to the further effect of the rust, how to control it, etc. This bed at 

 the College is one of the oldest asparagus beds in the country and has 

 become thoroughly infested. Last year, on my own lawn, my bed of 

 asparagus was killed by rust. I pulled all of the old stalks out of the 

 bed, burned them up and covered it with ashes. The bed this year 

 has borne no rust, but I simply consider it an accident ; do not know 

 why the plants have staid green until frost. The rust is spreading 

 through the State, I know, because I have found it upon volunteer 

 asparagus on numerous tree claims." 



