Show smut reduces yield and quality of grain crops no doubt every farmer Is acquainted with tha lift co common ninion smut of oats ants but it Is doubtful if they think of this tro trouble able as an active plant disease As n matter of fact smut Is a serious tro trouble lible on oats barley barey and wheat it to la caused by n fungus which infects the plant and destroys the feuds before they can once plants are infected there Is no cure for the trouble one cannot be sure that sped seed are free of disease just because they look clean alean or because they come from an apparently clean held at thrashing time the smut spores are liberated by tile the millions anti and thise these lodge on the individual grains and are carried back to the field where they infect the new crop the formaldehyde treatment will kill the smut spores and will not orect the germination of the seed blake hakea a solution of one pint of commercial formaldehyde 40 lj percent erent torm alln in 40 gallons of water put the grain to be treaded in bags about one bushel to the bag dip into info the barrel of solution and allow to remain five to ten minutes move tile the bags up and down tn in the barrels so as to insure n thorough tion of the seed deed then lift out the bags nna allow all of the solution to drain oly oft and either pile together and coar cover with canvas or pour 19 g grain iraln out out on oil a clean floor and keep it covered for six to twelve hours after this flits spread the grain out on a clatin floor bor to dry tills this treatment can plan be used u ed for stinking smut amut of wheat and for covered smut of barvey barley |