Show TO PREVENT PLANT DISEASE much trouble may be obviated by careful selection of seed cause of oat smut with some plants disease Is trans ulsted through the seed in such cases may be saved by a careful lon of seed closely linked with good seed cornea he question of treating the seed to kill diseases lis eases and make it safe to use oat smut comes from spores that ling to the seed and may be readily tilled by the use of to kill jie smut the same treatment tor corn smut s a failure on account of the disease leing transmitted from the soil with potato scab the treatment la aate it the soil Is washed off from the eed potato otherwise it Is a failure with potatoes it mav come alther from the soil around the potato r from the soil that it Is planted in bean cannot be cured ay iy seed treatment because the fungus within the tissues of the bean chere poison cannot reach it and here are other sources of infection at are more numerous than the seed hat is planted onion smut can be prevented to a areat extent by drilling air slaked lime ind flower of sulphur in the drills ahen the seed is sown cabbage club root may be prevented y a liberal application of lime to the around the plant |