CHAPTER XIII. 



STRAW BLIGHT. 



UNDER the name of Straw Blight agriculturists are well 

 acquainted with a peculiar diseased condition of the living 



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FIG. 25. STRAW BLIGHT. 

 Fragments of diseased Wheat Steins. Enlarged 5 diameters. 



stems of wheat, barley, rye, and other grasses, which 



