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of the barberry. The farmer should not permit the barberry 
to have a place in his hedges, or in plantations on his farm. 
Further, that while rust mav in itself -c,. „ m. a 
be injurious to the crop, i't is more ^'—^ ^P^'^ i^''^ 
dangerous as the earlier stage of the 
mildew, and as the producer of crop 
after crop of spores which produce 
mildew. The only check to the rust 
is a bright sun and a warm dry atmos- 
phere. 
From the history of the fungus, it is 
manifest that at no stase is it under our 
control ; and though we can take steps 
which may prevent at different stages 
the unnecessary increase of the spores, 
we must be badiied in any attempt to 
prevent the appearance of the disease, 
whether in the rust or the mildew stage. 
I have never observed anv variety of wheat that has escaped 
mildew at a time and in a district where mildew was prevalent. 
Sometimes one field ma^' suffer less than another in the same 
district, and at the harvest may yield a heavier and better-filled 
grain, but this I have found to result from the time at which 
the field was attacked by the disease. Some of the prepared 
food of the plant may have been stored in the seed before the 
parasitic robber interfered with its transmission. An early 
field may consequently suffer less. But when the atmospheric 
conditions have been present for the germination of the spores, I 
have failed to detect any difference in liability to blight, arising 
either from the variety of the wheat, or from the method of 
cultivation. 
duced in the Spring 
from the Jlildeic germi- 
nating on the surface of 
the Barberry Lea f and 
penetrating the Skin. 
XXVII. — A Poultry Farm in Huntingdonshire. By 
S. B. L. Deuce, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister. 
The following account of a poultry farm forms a part of the 
report on Huntingdonshire, which, as an Assistant Commis- 
sioner, I wrote for the Royal Commission on Agriculture. 
\^ ith the exception of the last part it is reproduced here as it 
was originally written. 
The farmers in Huntingdonshire have endeavoured to meet 
the bad times * as well as they could ; and among other attempts 
* Huntingdonshire felt the depre sioa in Agriculture more tererely, in my 
judgment, than any other of iha fiftetn counties which comprised my district. — 
S. B. L. D. 
