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Show Cleaning of Seed Wheat Is Favored Copper Dust Treatment Is Quite Useful in Control Con-trol of Smut. (PrrparedV by tlio United State Department l ' of Agriculture.) Cleaning of seed wheat for the' re-moval re-moval of weed seeds is generally rec-i rec-i ognized and recommended as good fanning policy, and In recent years., jj says the United States Department of Agriculture, the deslroblllty of tho j; cupper carbonate dust treatment of i- seed wheat for .-control of stinking emut or bunt . has - also bad . general acceptance, ., .Early . applications .of the copper carbonate, treatment. were largely In hand machines, but' more j" recently power dusters have been per-. per-. feeted. Leaflet 33-L, "The Combina-tion Combina-tion Cleaning and . Treating . of Seed t' Wheat," just published by the De-: De-: partnient of Agriculture for free dis-tributlon dis-tributlon points out that the cleaning ': and treating of seed wheat may well be applied in a single operation. Useful Machines. The authors point out that several successful machines for either the cleaning or treating operations are on the market and that they may be combined and mounted on trucks so as to be easily moved from farm to farm, or set up as stationary equipment. equip-ment. Also several makes of machines ma-chines designed to combine cleaning and treating In one operation are now on the market. Last year an eastern railroad mounted equipment in an old baggage car to serve wheat growers along Its lines and to demonstrate the value of the two treatments. Mounted Machine. -The leaflet also contains a section describing u combined machine mounted on a truck and driven by u small gasoline engine which was operated op-erated ns a community enterprise in San Luis Ohlspq county, California, last year. The county farm bureau financed the equipment which in 1927 operated for nearly three months and' served 134 grain growers, handling more than 3H.OO0 bushels of seed wheat In 1928 more than 200 farmers farm-ers were served and even more seed gvain was cleaned and treated. This out lit can handle grain at an average aver-age rate of more than !"() bushuls an hour. The cost of the farmers is low. It averaged $1.94 a ton in 1927. The leaflet, which Includes photographs and a drawing of the equipment In use, may be obtained free on iippll-i iippll-i cation to the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, Washington. 'I D. C. . |