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unusual Season *ppv Makes Unusual Corn Troubles ! p
The unusual growing season
ments in Virginia’s com fields. • S. B. Fenne, plant pathologist at VPI, says numerous samples of yellow, damaged corn seedlings have been received in his laboratories. Reports are coming in from ^various parts of the state where farmers are plowing up 30 to 50 acres of corn because of this _ injury. " r
Here is what is wrong: Corn planted during the last of April and during May often stayed in, the ground for long periods of time before germinating. Weather , conditions were very unfavorable for corn growth. Frequently the. seed actually rotted in the ground and never came up. Where there were a few warm days, the com seed germinated, and after it appeared above the ground cold weather damaged the leaves to the, extent that often a bacterial soft f-rot -entered ahd the tops we r e :t*
Freezing temperatures are not necessary for this type of injury. Seed treatment will help prevent it. However, there were many cases, where seed . were properly_ treated, and there was enough - weather for the seed to germinate. Then it turned cold. The treated =Seed
was protected against soil organisms, but when the young roots left the seed itself and. moved out into the soil, the fungicide protection, which was only on the seed, did not protect the roots. Therefore, these roots became infected with0 soil organisms. Seed com maggot and flea beetle injury often added to the troubles. There're no recommendations to correct the trouble. Under normal conditions it would not happen.
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