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affected plants would reveal its presence, nothing unusual is normally noted 

 until about the "heading-out" stage, when it is observed that many plants, 

 sometimes scattered through the crop, sometimes in patches, are stoolino 



poorly and drying out earlier than the other healthy wheat plants, and Lhal 

 they yield only a small amount of pinched grain or none at all iFi«s 16 



and 17). 



Plants can he traced as having died from the disease at all stages (Pig. 

 18). Some are much reduced in growth with only a single head. In all 

 cases stooling is very poor; sometimes only one straw develops to form a 



Fig. 17.— Two Diseased and two Healthy Heads. 



