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The small grain cereals wheat, barley, oats and rye are cultivated worldwide. They form the foundation of most agricultural systems and are essential in the manufacture of staple products such as bread, pasta and fermented beverages. Reflecting the global and economic importance of cereal crops, this book aims to make identification of diseases aff
Excerpt from Seed Treatments for the Control of Certain Diseases of Wheat, Oats, and Barley As the literature on the effectiveness of seed treatments is very voluminous, only a few references on the history of such treatments and some of the more recent articles that have a close bearing on the experiments reported will be given. The use of preventive seed treatments may have started in England. It is said that in about 1760 a shipload of wheat sank at Bristol and that the wheat was salvaged after having been in the sea water. As the germination still was satisfactory, the whole cargo was sold and much of it was sown by farmers thruout that area. At har vest time much of the wheat in England was smutty, but that grown from the seed which had been soaked in sea water apparently was free from smut. From this accidental discovery, the brining method was developed. This method, however, has not proved entirely satisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.