| Show w w OAT SMUT CAUSED BIG LOSS 1011 subject gaining importance because bec iuie farmer farmers failed to die use simple treatment oat milt smut which was practically eradicated from the state by the campaign carried on by the agronomy de apartment part ment of the college of agriculture of the university of wisconsin 16 again assuming importance through the failure ot of many farmers to use tha the simple treatment to prevent the disease the tact fact that oat cat smut caused serious losses last summer ID in some fields in the state should con vince farmer farmers that safety lies only in the trea treating of their need seed oats one pint of for milin or formaldehyde which may be obtained at any drug store will treat thirty bushels of oats this solution should be made by using one pint of fo to falln to thirty six gallone gallons of water in a tank ot of barrels the oats should then be put in gunny sacks filled only to third full and submerged in the form alln tor for only ten N hen the sacks of oata oats are withdrawn from the barrels or ante tark they should be allowed to drain thereby savin considerable solution tiou that would otherwise be wasted asted the oate oats are then emptied on a threshing floor and cocron with blankets an hour or to so as to miko the treat met me t more effective after this the th otts are allowed to dry ois gas treated with the form alln solution will usual ly dry sufficiently for owing sowing in one or two days after treatment the oata oats swell considerably and it li Is necessary for the seeder or drill to be set eo so that it will vill BOW sow abol abot t one bushel more p r acre oata oats can be treated effectively sov pral weeks or montha previous to sowing it desired de atred and if properly pro peri perl dried the power will nol not suffer for the average farmer lust previous to sowing will provo prove most convenient |
