Show TREAT IREAT OATS AND WHEAT FOR FOB SMUT SHUT Reports Show That It Pays to Use Formaldehyde at Time of Planting Crops WORK OF DIFFERENT AGENTS TS Practically None of Fields Given i Treatment Showed Any Signs of Farmers Disease Farmers of Porter I County Lost Prepared by the United States StateR Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of A Agriculture Evidence that it la pays s 's to treat trent wheat and oats at the time of planting with formaldehyde de to prevent smut Is given in reports of a number of conducted b by Indiana county agents Fields of oats in DuBoIs county count county coun coun- t ty sown seed treated with formaldehyde formaldehyde for for- for smut as ns recommended by the United States department of agriculture and the State Agricultural college showed practically none of the theli disease li ense while fields planted from seed not treated contained about 15 per percent percent percent cent smut according to the local county coun coun- county ty agents agent's report V 4 Work in Warren County As a result of the demonstration conducted on by the county counts agent in Warren county it was found that a l r plot of oats planted with untreated seed showed 33 per cent smut while n another plot in the same field planted c with treated seed was free from the t. t disease Other oat fields throughout i t the e count county that were not treated were Infested with the disease in amounts var varying ing from 7 to 35 per cent As the result of the damage done by t t f wheat smut In Porter county farmers 4 will lose about on the crop according to statistics compiled complied by the county d county agent In checking up the damage dam dam- r age done by smut the agent found that the disease had caused 7 per cent decrease decrease de de- de- de crease in the count county's s yield l About t two-thirds two of the farmers of the county county coun coun- ty treated ty-treated treated their seed and effected n a saving sn ing of nearly Smut in Steuben County t The The count county agent of Steuben county i In company with a representative of the United States department of agriculture agriculture agri agri- t culture found one field of wheat with withas Lis as s much h as 84 per cent of smutted h heads heads and considerably more than 50 It r 1 rt I i 1 r. r bra n l' l Q i Protecting Seed Wheat Against Smut i by Formaldehyde Treatment I 4 per per cent of ot the crop was lost Other fi fields showed as high a as 40 to 50 per percent percent percent cent of scab Where wheat had been sown In corn stubble ground the scab 4 was was much worse than where it followed followed fol fol- ii lowed other crops The agent took y advantage of the gatherings of farmers farm farm- f k ers era rs while the they were thrashing to show how v smut and und other cereal diseases I tr w were r causing los losses es and to demonstrate demonstrate demon demon- strate methods of seed treatment |