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except as noted last year in the gavdcDs licrr ai die College. We did 

 not notice the rust until late in the summer, and soon as the plants 

 were fairly nialurt' we cut them oil'. We picked up every stem with 

 great care, carried them oil' the gardens and Inirned them. This 

 year we have not noticed a particle of rust on our plantation, but I 

 am of the opinion that a minute examination would reveal some slight 

 occurrence of this troul)le."' 



Professor John L. Sheldon sends the following for West Virginia : 

 ''Asparagus is not grown in West Virginia to any considerable extent, 

 but so far as my observations go the beds infested with the rust have 

 been considerably weakened. The damage seems to be worse where 

 Darlnca filnni accompanies the rust." 



Professor A. D. Selby, of the Ohio Experiment Station, writes: 

 "1 can add little to previous reports. The rust has been sent to the 

 Station from Hamilton county and from one or more additional 

 counties within previously defined limits. Asparagus growers appear 

 to look upon the rust more and more as a regular accompaniment of 

 this culture. Methods of avoidance, rather than spray treatments, 

 have been chiefly employed so far as reports to the Station indicate.'* 



Professor B. 0. Longyear, from Michigan, sends the following: "I 

 have had only two plots of asparagus under ob^n-vation during the 

 present season; consequently cannot give any very careful points in 

 regard to the rust. Conditions here have been very favorable for a 

 vigorous and continuous growth of the plant due to the excessive 

 rainfall. In both of the plots under observation the rust is present, 

 but does not seem to be doing as much damage as in the ordinarily 

 dry season. Whether this will hold true in all parts of the State or 

 not I am unable to state, as the two plots mentioned are both in the 

 vicinity of the Agricultural College. No remedii's have been used 

 on either of the plots mentioned. In the smaller plot the disease 

 was almost entirely absent last season, which was also an unusually 

 wet one, but was present to a considerable extent in the larger one, 

 which was quite severe in both cases in previous seasons." 



Dr. T. J. Burrill reports for Illinois as follows: "So far as 1 am 

 informed the situation in Illinois in this matter is just about as it 

 was last year when reported to you. The number of infected places 

 are certainly as great as they then were, though in some instances 

 diseased beds have been destroyed. I do not know of any instance in 

 which the fungus has been eradicated by any less heroic measures 

 than ihv entire dosiruction of the |)lantatioii. ihough it is certain 



