CONTENTS 



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Introduction 173 



Diseases of cereals 175 



Wheat 175 



Rusts 176 



Leaf rust 176 



Stem rust 179 



Smuts ISl 



Stinking smut 181 



Loose smut 1S4 



Flag smut 186 



Scab 186 



Septoria diseases 188 



Speckled leaf-blotch 188 



Glume blotch 189 



Anthracnose 189 



Foot-rot 189 



Black-chaff 190 



Miscellaneous diseases 190 



Powdery mildew 190 



Mushroom attack 190 



Oats 190 



Crown I'ust • 191 



Stem rust 192 



Loose smut 192 



Corn 193 



Root-, stalk-, and ear-rots 194 



Root-rot 194 



Ear-rots 194 



Dry ear-rots 194 



Smut 195 



Brown-spot 196 



Rust 196 



Rosen's disease 197 



Black-bundle disease 197 



Stewart's disease 198 



Rye 198 



Brown rust 198 



Stem rust 199 



Ergot 199 



