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Smut and rust controls for cereal crops and fertilizer notes
Biologist T W Kirk from the New Zealand Department of Agriculture outlines seed treatments to prevent strut in wheat and barley including copper sulfate, lime water, and hot water methods. He warns on corrosive sublimate usage and references nitrate of soda history, iron in fertilisers, rust epidemics in the United States, and the value of rust resistant varieties for Australian farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. Kirk
New Zealand
Department of Agriculture
Victoria
Muntz
Institut Agronomique
Paris
United States Department of Agriculture
America
Wife Vale
Aino