CANADIAN WHEAT CROP
RUST-RESISTING SEED
READY FOR SOWING IN 1937
(Received November 8, 1 pjn.)
OTTAWA, November 7.
Rust-resisting wheat seed will be ready for distribution to Canadian farmers in 1937.
Major-General A. G. McNaughton, president of the National Research Council, predicts that it, will end the battle against plant disease which has been waged since 1925.
Three varieties of wheat have been developed that resist'black stem rust, which this year have cost farmers 100,000,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 113, 8 November 1935, Page 9
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76CANADIAN WHEAT CROP Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 113, 8 November 1935, Page 9
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