Show treat small grain for smut with formaldehyde small grain may be treated for smut with formaldehyde or copper carbonate the smut of corn however Is nn an altogether different kind of proposition and no method of tre treating A t the seed corn la Is of any value whatsoever it seems seema that corn smut Is 8 carried over in the soil more than atia on the seed of course wo would avoid picking for seed ears cars which are affected with smut or which come from plants which are infected in this way it may be possible eventually to build up a smut resistant strain it will take a good many years to do this |