Show WAR ON WHEAT SMUT WIDENS Sales of Formaldehyde Demonstrate Desire of Farmers to Drive Out Insidious Disease That farmers are tremendously in is earnest In their desire to drive out wheat smut Is shown by the big Increase increase increase in In- crease i in the thc sales of formaldehyde which have been made in four states where the United States department of agriculture In operation co-operation with tho the extension departments of the state agricultural colleges has been carr carrying jn on campal campaigns ns of ot education St I t Illustration of Improvement Which May Result From Treating Seed With Formaldehyde as Smut Often Stunts the Plants to demonstrate the proper use of formaldehyde form form- in treating wheat for this disease Reports from these states show that the Increase in the sales of formaldehyde de for the current year varies from to per cent as compared with the sales of 1917 the thelast thelast last Jast year before the present campaign was Inaugurated The four states In which this record has been made are Minnesota North Dakota South Da Dakota Dakota Da- Da kota and Montana There is every reason to believe that practically ait all of this increase represents supplies used In fighting smut |