Show now nc f tar far wit whit suit ut joa pharnol at N rth wab the wheat farmer farmen of washing ton and slid oregon are adopting a new now method of treating eed seed grains for smut it is known is ts thy the treatment and is 13 to sare at least 40 per cecii ecu of die crop that has bo be n lo lot t through the old formel ol 01 k alln w tho smut As one twell lh di of the wheat crop of the united states I 1 1 grown in ill thi inland empire of eastern washington and oregon and northern idaho the item of blossei from smut amounts to many thousands of dollars nery year estimates the low of one county alono at not less lea thu P for ewt year on account of the smut by th the Q aw A w process it is claimed that a w tins about eight cents on iho bused fur the entre ent re aith test het wheat ace ige can ewi be made iunus bysa t VM a aarn bitic la arow th of 1 I ismall pant feed ing irion on the stems stenis of the grain tho spora containing the sted aro deposited on tho al grillis aws and if not wore planting and ea cling n 9 to aba wheat plante thie this back sulA tanco ful fult tle the groove grooves of tho grain or clings to tho the soft hilry ends will i is sown with the seed wien when the sp os the tiny bartich parti cl e 9 of smut send out halry shoots that mie penetrate tho oung wheat pi ill inte it tf this can call bo prevented hile the grain ii awig young and or the ports distro Iks troed cd entirely blann abero will be no tho the neual usual formula for killing smut ia Is the TU ua ng ing of ciao pound of 0 blue vitriol to a gallon of water and dipping aa of fis c bushels of eod into this and inal inning singa a new batch bonnalin run ron nalin is a 30 per bent sola tion of jus gas i u water it can lo 10 pure iset ai at the drog ton stort d t f abot 60 50 ochi a pound hu pound edth nan sixty gull of N tate r the fx Fk lution lutton which is for treating fafty of seed wheat the plan ilan ie is to inake a trough to the tim old ow fashioned vat watt ring trough it little than ft a shovel hovel ft and li it rp enough tc I 1 ekl one 4 or more tula ran ie is andly with the solution mado oto pound of kaaha fon nulu and tho grain ie Is poured in gradually ao abia id ii dawir dene ite wilt the smut bill bolli and ild aate goat to fie ow surface and are a aft wan a shovel the tle seed is i stirred tip up aw loft left t tu stand and two hurs in the solution when men the grain is amm ft fin tift it ie is left on the tern bam floor or tn in an improvised drying apparatus to get perfectly dry before sowing sewing if put on it floor door thia this is made clean clam by mth with hot water to ament any further damage dama from the timues the dry auk made f from roin a wagon cora or ducking u m put up like a hammock ham mook a s a tween polo pou or poet here rm the tho eed seed remains until in condition t to be gown sown and a planted nt at once ones yow now sucks are ased to ik erent gt get tang baut from old sources the machines aro thorough wished with hot water before winn any swi is 19 pot put in them aud and every other prel pr caution by i ia adopted to nd the wheat of tho amui spores muty thou aaros of full sown wheat waa wai killed by the levere winter awl and tho fiolas lia lim v been beet reee re seeded eded tilia this spring in I 1 some cases the old vitriol fori nulI has babben been re retained but many are re trying the nw new treatment ment this I 1 ia U by the washington agricultural mont aution Ste tion and is sup supposed posea to fae be the most thorough and efat cane remedy e orang estad tho the same formula is wod in treating seed lats fur for the booso loo smut the seed is eed in sacks about ono otio bush d 1 I iu in each and dipped into th solution this method for wheat as they claim the spores are killed and there is no for skimming them off the lie grain now new york tribune |