RUST-RESISTING WHEAT
SEED AVAILABLE IN 1937 SUCCESS OF RESEARCH WORK ‘United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 3.0 p.m. to-day. OTTAWA, Nov. 7. Rust resisting wheat seed will be ready for distribution to farmers in 1937. This was the prediction of MajorGeneral A. G. McNaughton, president of the National Research Council, thus ending the battle against plant disease since 1925. The council had developed three varieties of wheat that resists black stem rust, which this year cost farmers 100,000,000 dollars.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 November 1935, Page 8
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81RUST-RESISTING WHEAT Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 November 1935, Page 8
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