The Earliest Known Epiphytotic of Rust in Iowa

Authors

Maria A. Corkle, Iowa Agricultural Experiment StationFollow
I. E. Melhus, Iowa Agricultural Experiment StationFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

It is the purpose of this paper to call attention to a rust epiphytotic in l 858, which apparently has been overlooked in the study of plant disease prevalence in Iowa. Early Iowa agricultural records and newspapers contain numerous reports of the calamitous wheat and oat failures caused by rust in 1858, yet this rust year has not been reported in any scientific publication from Iowa. Miss Hamilton², who summarized material regarding a rust epiphytotic that occurred in 1878 in southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and Wisconsin, likewise makes no mention of the epiphytotic of 1858.

Publication Date

1941

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

48

Issue

1

First Page

147

Last Page

157

Copyright

©1941 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Corkle, Maria A. and Melhus, I. E. (1941) "The Earliest Known Epiphytotic of Rust in Iowa," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 48(1), 147-157.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol48/iss1/17