There is some evidence that blight spores are beginning to move through the air from 

 local infected fields. Infections from debris usually begin on the lower leaves and 

 may move to upper leaves. But if lesions are found on upper leaves and not on the 

 lower leaves, the infect ion -producing spores were blown into the field. 



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This weekly report was prepared as follows: 



INSECTS: H.B. Petty, Steve Moore, Roscoe Randell , Don Kuhlman, and Tim Cooley , Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , and the Illinois 

 Natural History Survey. 



WEEDS: Ellery Knake and Marshal McGlamery , Department of Agronomy. 



PLANT DISEASES: M.C. Shurtleff and Ed Burns, Department of Plant Pathology. 



AG COMMUNICATIONS: Ray Wood is 



The information for this report was gathered by these people, staff members, county 

 Extension advisers, and others, in cooperation with the USDA Agricultural Research 

 Service, Plant Pest Control Branch. 



