A Short Account of the Cause of the Disease in Corn, Called by Farmers the Blight, the Mildew, and the RustJ. Harding, 1806 - 39 Seiten |
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AGRICULTURE AND RURAL animals appearance average price barberry bush barberry tree barley Blight in Corn blighted corn Blighted wheat boards Botani botanists BRITISH bushel Cattle cause cent Clover leys consi Country crop of pease CULTURE deficiency of wheat derable Designs for Cottages DESIGNS for GATES dews diseased straws Edition Engraved epidermis ESSAY Farm farmers flour fungi glumes gree Green Houses harvest Husbandry Improvement increase infected LANDSCAPE GARDENING malady manured MARSHALL'S ment mildew mould is thrown nutriment OBSERVATIONS offal corn orange colour parasitic fungus parasitic plant plants of wheat Plates PLAW's plumpest sample Pores or mouths POTATOES PRACTICAL price of wheat probably produce puberty quarters ripens Rollesby roots RURAL AFFAIRS RURAL ECONOMY RURAL ORNAMENT rust Scotland season seed corn seed vessels SKETCHES for COTTAGES soils sowing sown species Spring wheat T. A. KNIGHT tage Teese tillage tion TREATISE ture vegetation VILLAS vols Wooburn yellow
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Seite 2 - Society, are considered as agricultural essays, On this account it has been deemed expedient to offer to the consideration of farmers, engravings of this destructive plant, made from the drawings of the accurate and ingenious Mr. Bauer, Botanical Painter to his Majesty, accompanied with his explanation, from whence it is presumed an attentive reader will be able to form a correct idea of the facts intended to be represented, and a just opinion whether or not they are, as is presumed to be the case,...
Seite 11 - Some observing men have of late attributed this very perplexing effect to the farina of the flowers of the barberry, which is in truth yellow, and resembles in some degree the appearance of the rust, or what is presumed to be the Blight in its early state.
Seite 4 - Plate, fig. 1, £) they germinate and push their minute roots, no doubt (though these have not yet been traced), into the cellular texture beyond the bark, where they draw their nourishment, by intercepting the sap that was intended by nature for the...
Seite 8 - Providence, however, careful of the creatures it has created, has benevolently provided against the too extensive multiplication of any species of being; was it otherwise, the minute plants and animals, enemies against which man has the fewest means of defence, would increase to an inordinate extent; this, however, can in no case happen, unless many predisposing causes afford their combined assistance.
Seite 4 - VI. fig. 1 . 2.), they germinate and push their minute roots, no doubt (though these have not yet . been traced), into the cellular texture beyond the bark, where they draw their nourishment, by intercepting the sap that was intended by nature for the nutriment of the grain; the corn of course...
Seite 12 - ... a yellow parasitic fungus, larger, but otherwise much resembling, the rust in corn. Is it not more than possible, that the parasitic fungus of the barberry and that of wheat are one and the same species, and that the seed transferred from the barberry to the corn, is one cause of the disease?
Seite 7 - ... observations, and we may hope that some progress will be made towards the very desirable attainment of either a preventive or a cure. " It seems probable that the leaf is first infected in the spring, or early in the summer, before the corn shoots up into straw, and that the fungus is then of an orange colour...
Seite 8 - ... in a hot season : if so, how frequently in the latter end of the summer must the air be loaded as it were with this animated dust, ready, whenever a gentle breeze accompanied, with humidity, shall give the signal to intrude itself into the pores of thousands of acres of corn.
Seite 2 - Agriculturists da not appear to have paid, on this head, sufficient attention to the discoveries of their fellow -labourers in the field of nature; for though scarce any English writer of note, on the subject of rural economy has failed to state his opinion of the origin of this evil, no one of them , has yet attributed it to the real cause, unless Mr. Kirby's excellent papers on some diseases of corn, published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, are considered as agricultural essays.
Seite 15 - ... on which no dung from the yard was used, were as much infected last autumn as the manured crops. The immense multiplication of the disease in the last season, seems however to account for this; as the air was no doubt frequently charged with seed for miles together, and deposited it indiscriminately on all sorts of crops.