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Show Treatment of Seed With Good Fungicides Stressed Treatment of grain seed with effective ef-fective fungicides to insure better stands takes on additional importance impor-tance this year, the U.S. department depart-ment of agriculture reports. The department says the average cost of a few cents an acre makes failure to take the precaution not only thoughtless but reckless. Fungicidal Fungi-cidal treatment of grain seed is notly for the smuts' and other console con-sole diseases of wheat, oats, barley and for the seed rots and seedling blights of corn and sorghum. Department officials contend it is fortunate that much seed, such as hybrid corn, is treated at the source. Also there are large-scale treating plants where farmers may take their seed for treatment. "Farmers who hire someone to treat their seed should make sure that the proper chemicals are used and that they are applied at the recommended rates per bushel," department de-partment officials warn. |