Mar. io, 1923 
Rosette Disease of Wheat and Its Control 
791 
Table VII .—Percentage of rosette disease infection, acre yield in bushels, and bushel 
weight of 10 varieties of winter wheat grown in plots 54 inches wide by 50 rods long, on 
uniformly infested soil, at Granite City, III., in IQ 20 
Variety. 
Infection by 
rosette disease. 
Acre 
yield. 
Bushel 
weight, 
Harvest Queen (“Salzer’s Prize-taker”) .... 
Red Wave. 
90 per cent. 
Bushels. 
8. 87 
28.33 
24. 08 
28. 83 
25. 6l 
I 3 - 5 i 
26. 20 
32- 87 
21. 50 
25.80 
Pounds. 
54 - 75 
56 - 75 
58.00 
56 - 5 ° 
58- 5 ° 
53 - 0 ° 
59 - 5 ° 
58 - 50 
60 . OO 
60. 75 
0..... 
Illini Chief. 
25 to 30 per cent.. 
Trace. 
Harvest King. 
Early May. 
0 .. 
Harvest Queen (white-chaffed Red Cross)... 
Fultz. 
78 per cent. 
2 per cent. 
Winter Fife.. 
2 plants. 
Turkey. 
0 . 
Fulcaster. 
2 per cent. 
Table VIII .—Percentage of rosette-disease infection in 150 varieties and strains of winter 
wheat grown in rod rows in uniformly infested soil near Granite City, III., in IQ21 
Variety. 
Susceptible: 
Harvest Queen (white-chaffed Red Cross)... 
(Selection No. 13462, bearded, red-chaffed).. 
Harvest Queen. 
Niagara (Sel. No. 13535). 
Velvet Chaff (Penquite). 
Missouri Bluestem. 
Dawson (Dawson’s Golden Chaff) .r... 
Illini Chief 1 . 
Illini Chief. 
Budapest. 
Turkey (.Wis. No. 18) 1 . 
World’s Champion 1 . 
Resistant: 
Ahrens. 
Alabama. 
American Bronze. 
Beloglina 1 . 
Crimean. 
CrimeanXFultz (R. 5, 1919) 1 . 
CrimeanX Fultz (R. 6, 1919). 
CrimeanXFultz (R. 7, 1919) 1 . 
CrimeanXFultz (R. 8, 1919).. 
CrimeanXFultz (R. 9, 1919) 1 . 
Currell. 
CurrellXFultz (R. 12, 1919) 1 
CurrellXFultz (R. 13, 1919). 
Dietz Longberry. 
Seed source. 
Percentage 
of disease. 
Ill. Sta . 
95 
c. I. 4834.. 
95 
C. I. 4882 . 
75 
C. 1. 5307. 
70 
c. 1. 3540 . 
65 
C. I. 1912 . 
60 
fill. 9-225 . 
Trace. 
1c. I. 6161. 
Trace. 
Ill. Sta. 
Trace. 
C. I. 5406. 
Trace. 
c. 1. 5789. 
Trace. 
Ill. Sta. 
Trace. 
.do . 
Trace . 
C. I. 4848 ... 
0 
C. 1 .5785. 
0 
c. I. 5638 . 
0 
/Ill. Sta . 
0 
\C. I. 5964 . 
0 
c. I. 5831 . 
0 
C T 
0 
C. I . 
0 
C. I . 
0 
C. I . 
0 
re. I . 
0 
\C. I . 
0 
(C. I. 2906 . 
0 
c. I. 3326 . 
0 
lc. I. 4802 . 
0 
C. I. 
0 
fC. I .. 
0 
C. I. 
0 
C. I. 
0 
JC. I. 1981. 
0 
1 C. I. 3387. 
0 
/c. 1.4582. 
0 
\c. 1.4582. 
0 
Early Harvest 
1 Especially robust. 
