How to Grow Vegetables And Garden Herbs; a Practical Handbook And Planting Table for the Vegetable Gardener
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Diseases. — Corn-smut is the worst disease affecting corn, its dark masses being very conspicuous; the plants yield less, and if the fungous growth attacks the ears, these are ruined. Continuous spraying of the ground and plants will control smut to some extent, but is too expensive. The best preventives are collecting and burning all smut as soon as it shows, and avoiding all manure from cattle which have been fed with smutted com. Use only healthy seed. The sorghum-head smut may be controlled... by the same means. Corn blight is destructive, and has not yet been conti'oUed by the known remedies. Com pests are more than two hundred in number. Fig. 51. Plant of Sweet Corn. CORN 103 the worst being the cutworm, the wireworm, the corn- stalk borer, and the corn-worm or cotton-boll worm. For almost all of them late fall plowing, and dressing Fig. 52. An ear of early Corn. with kainit, one thousand pounds per acre, are advised. Rotation is also of value. Against cutworms use poisoned baits.
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