Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-04-27

Dangerous Burberry Harmless Burberry
m % % Ds i Ss yha a1m sa nsy and should "
Have you the European barbel1y aso called tall
get rid of it at
Wisconsin grain crops in danger.
Secretary of Agriculture F. Houston has requested L.
Philip and the State Council Defense join surrounding states
of the Mississippi valley grabbing out the common bar
berry as a war measure to protect gram crops
The black of grains makes its first appearance in
the spring this bush and spreads from to the wheat oa
and barley fields In this widespread epdemcs of rust dis
have caused losses the farmers past and
have greatly reduced the food supply.
The the disease with which the grain
has to contend In 1915 for example such rust epidemic
caused loss of 00000000 bushels of spring wheat Of
should that the destruction of the barber
will stop all OF the loss from rust There other grain rust
diseases besides this black Moreover this rust
ovewnter grains without the of the bar
that relatively little damage results On the other hand
the of the barbe gives the rust running start in
the spring month ahead of what it would otherwise and
then weather conditions favor the rust becomes epidemic and
causes disaster to the crops.
~t-! Disease Spread by Wind --iT
The disease known spread long distances by
the disease is later distributed still distant points,
travel wide after it has been started To
eradcated the time from all parts the spring wheat
area of the upper Mississippi valley
WiscOnsins Share Fight
Wisconsin planning increase the acreage the
resulting in the elimination of the babey from the would
increase the food SUNNY Wisconsin will ION ovaI VIII her
of upper Mississippi valley to eradicate quickly
and effectively this menace to food production
Eradication Has Been Successful
In Denmark epdemcs of black occur at intervals
years before tall barberry destroyed Eradication
of these shrubs begun 1904 and within years they
completely eliminated that the pdemc have ceased
to appear Due the of the Denmark central
European countries started babey eradication several years
Eradication in This Country
North Dakota practically wiped barbey last year and
has prohibited the growing of this plant within the Much
progress has been made Iowa reducing the number of these
bushes Minnesota the eradication of the barbev
and will eliminate from region during the com
world Two Canadian have passed eradication
and the Canadian has requested cooperation
serious disease.
Two Kinds o. Burberry
There are three different varieties of babey commonly plant
ed in Wisconsin which two distinct kinds plant
CD The tall European babery of which there are
TWO forms the one with green leaves and the with purple
leaves. Both of these dangerous
( The low spreading Japanese barberry which is harmless
The common or tall baben always be told by upright
to 10 or more feet high branches and the fact that
in clusters There practically difference between the green
and purple varieties except color of leaf Both the
therefore are dangerous and should be at once
me japanese oarbery is low spreading, much branched
shrub feet height the branches bearing one SHINE
wos This does not bear the therefore is harmless and
De grown safely In years this has planted much more
than the dangerous kind.
Eliminate the Tall Burberry
In view of the serious food situation and nosspl;t 90
& Whea and other grain losses by getting rid of this
oaroery the State Council of Defense requests that
immediate steps to destroy these bushes and that no more he
planted IN the state. W W ''ie 0e
DeIense take appropriate action their rspecve
equeS all the available agencies such the county
eutura age emergency agents weed commissioners ch
onlcels commercial clubs boy scouts and last Init ct t ~
%omens clubs to in eradication Of these hb ns
before Arbor Day the propagation If H. Oy y
transmission to this years crop Of grain be efect;s