Show LOOSE SMUT OV OF WHEAT controlled UY it you wore assessed a direct tax of from 2 to 16 15 per cent of your crop each year would you object yet loose smut enters our wheat fields annually and collects this tax A 5 per cent decro aso in tho wheat yield of the state for 1922 amounted to bushels which figured at the conservative figure of per bushel would be it cost coat just as much to grow smutty wheat as it does to grow clean wheat thero there fore ore 6 5 per cent loss losa of 0 tho the gross grosa would bo be a loss of approximately 25 per cent of the not net returns loose smut la Is a fungus disease which lives alvea over winter Im bedded in the very center of tho the wheat germ no chemicals are able to disinfect the wheat because when the poison hills the smut it also kills the wheat germ the hot water treatment that has hag been used to soma extent has not been found practical tor for general use the only time tbt loose smut ia found in the fields is ia at the cheats blooming time it appears as black smutty heads this black mass composed of microscopic particles called spores which are blown about by the wind and find their way into tho flowers of the blooming wheat the tha wheat is formed with this black spore inside and next year when this la Is planted it produces a smutty black head the control of the smut can boot best lye be done by eing it out that Is ia pulling out the smutted heads as they appear since this Is an impossibility in a largo field a good seed plat should bo be made where all weeds weeda and smutty wheat can bo be removed plant only clean certified corti fled L agricultural experiment station west bad ind oct utter cont com wn n which clouds title to state school lands and threatens threW ns seriously to hamper the progress of education by limiting funds available for that pur purpose poso was pointed out by governor charles it maby of utah in an address s delivered hero today before the fifteenth annual conference of governors upon state and national problems lems indian reservations national forest land and coal and mineral land withdrawals in utah governor maby said have consumed more than one third of the original school lane land grant leaving the state to choose in its stead territory of practically no value tor for agricultural purposes what will bo be left to tho the school children when tho land off ico Is f in through from which to choose the inheritance intended to guarantee in fart their education will be the alkali homo home of tho the desolate greasewood and the ubiquitous shad scalo or t the 11 0 sandy aandy domain of tho companionable rattlesnake and hla his pro tego the prickly pear governor vernor mabey asserted referring to the constant encroach ments on school lands in tho weste western rn states stales he declared it rested with the federal government to mako make good its original gitt gift tor for tho benefit of public education |