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.1,000,000 bushels. Within the last two or three years this crop has 
become increasingly important because of the variety of products manu¬ 
factured from the oil and meal. 1 During 1915, $9,000,000 worth of oil 
alone was imported. Local cottonseed-oil mill owners have been in¬ 
duced, however, partially by the efforts of the North Carolina Experiment 
Station, to crush soybeans during their otherwise idle season. The few 
mills in the State which have done this have found a ready market for 
the oil and meal. 
OTHER SOYBEAN DISEASES 
Soybeans are very generally observed to be quite free from disease, 
and no very seriously destructive parasites of this host appear to have 
been reported in the literature at hand. Of those reported, a detailed 
study has not been made, except in the case of Bacillus lathyri 
Manns and Taubenhaus (13, 14). The accounts of the others consist of 
brief fragmentary mycological notes and mention of their place of col¬ 
lection or of their appearance. Since any of them may appear on plants 
affected with blight or wilt, it is deemed advisable to call attention to 
the published accounts of these diseases and the appropriate bibliog¬ 
raphy. 
Septoria sojina v. Thilmen (on living or declining leaves) (24). 
Phyllosticta sojaecola Massalongo (15, p. 688). 
Aecidium glycines P. Henn. (6, p. 52). 
Uromyces sojae (P. Henn.) Sydow (22, p. 429). 
Bacillus sp. (on leaves)—Heald (9, 10), Smith (21), and Clinton (4). 
Bacillus lathyri Manns and Taubenhaus (on leaves and pods) (13, 14), and Manns. 
Heterodera radiciola—S cofield (19* p. 9), Gilbert (8, p. 9)., Bessey and Byars (2, 
p. 8). (These authors merely mention the soybean as a host for this parasite.) 
Chlorosis and crinkling (cause?) (Description of the disease in the field)— 
Clinton (5). 
Septoria glycines T. Hemmi (comparison with 5. sojina above) (11). 
It is not believed that the presence of any of these organisms would 
lead to confusion in the diagnosis of blight caused by the species of Fusa- 
rium under consideration. 
HISTORY AND OCCURRENCE OF THE DISEASE 
No published report of a disease of soybeans caused by any species of 
Fusarium and one account only of attempts to produce a disease of this 
host with the cowpea wilt organism have been brought to the writer’s 
attention. Orton (16, p. 16-19) conducted these tests at Edisto Island, 
S. C., in 1900, and at Monetta, S. C., in 1901. Several varieties of 
cowpeas and soybeans were planted on soil badly infected with,the 
1 The following is a list of the most important products obtained from soybeans or in which soybeans 
enter: Soybean milk, meal or flour, soups, pork and beans, meat substitutes, fertilizer and cattle feed 
from the meal, and dynamite and high explosives, soaps, linoleum, rubber substitutes, margarine, Jap¬ 
anese sauce, paints, varnishes, toilet powder, waterproof cloth, salad oil, lubricants, and lard substitutes 
from the oil. 
