SIGN ON CORN
FORMER STORY RECALLED (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 23 Yorkshire farmers have been finding the letter “B” imprinted on the leaves of their ripening corn, says the Daily Mail. Some of them nodded wisely. They recalled that there were “B’s” on the com in 1918, before the Armistice. And there were “B’s” before the Boer War ended. But scientists came along with test tubes and microscopes. All they found was an attack of “rust”—a fungoid growth, which “might be frykpn for a ‘B’ or any other letter.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21214, 10 September 1940, Page 10
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91SIGN ON CORN Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21214, 10 September 1940, Page 10
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