Are We Bringing A Curse on Our Land? - Dale L Schurter - March 1971

Dale L Schurter

1970 witnessed one of the most serious agricultural disasters ever to hit the U. S. There was, indeed, a CURSE on the land It could have been avoided, but it threatens to happen again. It appeared suddenly last May in the panhandle of Florida. From there it rode the wind – spreading like a wild prairie fire over the American South. No sooner had it struck the South than it went north, leapfrogging across the eastern two thirds of the corn belt. It attacked the leaves, ate away at the stalk, ear, and every part of the plant above ground. At times, it wiped out entire cornfields in ten short days. It was the most serious com blight ever to hit the U. S. Secondary diseases have followed in the blight's wake. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library