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looked over his prospect he found a condition he 

 had never seen before, at least one that had been 

 overlooked in previous years. 



"That is the most discouraging thing I ever saw," 

 said the owner, as he took some of the infected 

 wheat heads and put them in his pockets for further 

 examination. "To raise a beautiful crop of wheat 

 and then have it destroyed in a manner that defies 

 any defense is most disheartening. Still, there must 

 be a defense and prevention for this thing, and if 

 there is, it must be found," concluded the owner, 

 none other than Farmer Good, who was now thor- 

 oughly aroused and had his fighting spirit up. Ar- 

 riving at his home, he took the infected wheat heads 

 from his pockets and prepared from them several 

 glass slides for his high powered microscope, and 

 upon studying these carefuUy, he noted the crescent- 

 shaped five-ceUed spore which made up the mass of 

 pink mold on the kernels. 



"There is the fellow that is causing all the dam- 

 age," said Farmer Good, "but how to stop him is 

 the next question. I wonder where he comes from 

 and how he Uves through the winter, and on what 

 crop he worked before this wheat was sown in this 

 field," mused the farmer, as he left the house to walk 

 over to a nearby pasture to look after some cattle. 



