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Show WHEAT SMUT TREATMENT IS DEMONSTRATED Smut may be kept out of wheat by a copix-r c,ar!)onate dust treatment treat-ment of the seed according to E. It. Priee, county agricultural agent, who pave a demonstration of the treating process to about thirty Springville farmers at J. F. Smith's store last Friday. According to reports a number of the wheat fields in Springville were infested with smut last year. Great care therefore should be taken this spring in selecting pure seed and then giving it proper treatment. treat-ment. The Springville farm bureuu has purchased upparatus used iu the process of the copper carbanate treatment and any body wishing to use the apparatus should phone Wm. Hill, president of the farm bureau. bur-eau. Accordinf to Sir. Trice this treatment treat-ment is much more effective for closed smut than the formuldebyde treatment. |