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...California last week, twelve acres of assorted wheat plants were growing in the hot desert sun. Department of Agriculture scientists, tending them as carefully as premature babies, hope that one or more of the 600 varieties now being tested will overcome "Race 15B," the new strain of black stem rust that is seriously threatening the U.S. wheat crop...
...Wheat rust has been around a long time. It bothered Roman wheat growers so much that they created a special rust god, Robigus, and blamed him for its outbreaks. U.S. plant scientists thought they had licked it. They bred rustproof wheat varieties that kept U.S. fields almost clear of the disease for 15 years, accounting for a good part of recent bumper wheat crops. Last summer Race 15B, a new, extra-virulent strain, appeared on wheat from Pennsylvania to Texas. It attacked all commercial varieties. Durum wheat, used for making spaghetti, was hardest hit, with 10 million bushels lost...
Last summer's losses are nothing to what might happen next summer. Rust is a quick-growing fungus that spreads by microscopic spores carried on the wind. "The spores," says Agriculture, "migrate like wild birds." North winds blow them south in fall, where they spend the mild winter on wheat in Texas and Mexico. When the weather gets warmer, they are blown back to the wheat belt by southerly winds...
During his three years here, the Justice said, the law student is "laying up capital that worms cannot eat nor time rust. Capital impregnable, unassailable, and undiminishable...
...plain that unless liberty of movement is maintained on Quincy, bicycles will rust in the stalls by the river dorms and Emerson, Sever, Robinson, and Fogg will have no more attendance than Soliders Field now on a Saturday afternoon...