Show EFFICACY OF SEED TREATMENT WITH formaldehyde after careful investigation the U S department of agriculture has dis Lovered that over 31 3 per cent of tle the wheat heat crop and 1 per cent of 0 the re crop is lost through smut seed treatment with for malde hydo hyde solution la Is practically per cent efficient except in a few sections lere here the soil la Is badly polluted with smut spores the forni formaldehyde treatment costs less lesa than 5 cents per acre tor for materials and labor to this must be added iu extreme cases the cost coat of 20 per tent cent of the seed reed grain the germinating power of which may be destroyed because of seed injury |