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Show ALL SEED POTATOES NEED TREATMENT. Practically all seed potatoes are sufficiently infected with common scab and Rhlzoctonla to make potato pota-to seed treatment profitable and even essential, according to Dr. Geo. R. Hill, director of the school of agriculture ag-riculture of the Utah Agricultural College. To control such diseases, Dr. Hill advocates that the seed potatoes po-tatoes be properly treated and that they be planted on clean ground. A simple method of seed treatment as worked out by Dr. Hill Is as follows: fol-lows: First, use dormant potatoes If possible. Potatoes which have sprouted will grow after the treatment, treat-ment, but dormant potatoes give stronger vines. Sometimes sprouted sprout-ed potatoes are sligtly inured by the treatment. Second, cut a slice from the stem end of each potato and discard all tubers showing a brown ring or a brown spot In the potato flesh. Diseases Di-seases on the Inside can not be kill ed by seed treatment. Third, Sprinkle the potatoes with water or soak them in water for twenty-four hours before treating. If the surface of the potatoes Is kept moist, the diseases begin to grow and is much more completely killed kill-ed by the treatment. Fourth. Soak tho potatoes for 2 hours in a solution of corrosive sublimate sub-limate in a wooden barrel or trough. To make this solution, dissolve four ounces of corrosive sublimate In thirty thir-ty gallons of water. Fifth, Spread the potatoes out and dry them as quickly as possible after the treatment. If they are sacked up and left wet, some of them may be Injured. If the po-; po-; tatoes are thin-skinned. It might pay to rinse them In water before spreading them out to dry. The I earlier in the season the treatment 'is done, the better. 1 Caution. Treated potatoes are I poisonous. Do not eat them. |