Show to destroy smut in wheat farm field and stockman the august bulletin of the kansas experiment station con bains the report of an all exhaustive ex experiment P ciment in ja the prevention of the slinking stinking smut of wheat tho the results of which are BO so valuable that we give them to our readers it is a well known fact that smut and similar growths are duo due to parasitic fungi which prorogate b by spores simi similar flar to seeds ot other af pf plants auts these spores being in the case of wheat smut tho the black stinking powder that is found inside the smutted grains in threshing these grains are broken tho the spores are scattered over h L ay g grains rains with which they are planted d and on which they take root rot and grow sending up in the issues odthe of the young plant micro spit spie th threads reada which grow with ita its growth grow tb and when th the a wheat heads out they penetrate the grains and there absorb the nutriment in tended for the grain and convert it into the foetid smut knowing this history of t the he smut it is easy to understand any treatment I 1 that will kill the spores I 1 I 1 7 V 1 of the this smut on the seed grain will reduce the injury to the following crop it has long been known this might be accomplished by soaking the seed grain in a solution of sulphate of copper blue vitriol but this process baa has the disadvantage of injuring the vitality of the seed grain the kansas experiment was undertaken with aview a view of f as ascertaining c r t a in in g whether the desired al red 0 object lej e e t m might ig lit bo be accomplished dished without this hill in injury 2 ury 1 in this experiment peri ment fifty one edi different methods of treatment were employed some employed killed the grain as we well aa as smut a some 0 m e d did i d 1 little i ati e 0 or r n no 0 good the m most 0 st e effective ff e eti y e t treatment re t m e nt was found to be simply scalding the seed a method first published by J L jenson of denmark to accomplish this the seed should be bandied in loose baskera bas keta such as will permit the water to pass pus readily through them it should farat be dipped in water warmed to to deg degrees reea otherwise the scalding water will be cooled too much then di dip P it i in in i a large vessel containing water heated to not less than degrees and not exceeding degrees shake or stir it thoroughly so that the water will reach every grain remove the basket occasionally aud and boiling water until the temper temperature a ture is brought up to the proper point keep it in hot water fifteen minutes then aspre spread ad out to dry if this work is thorough thoroughly Y done the smut spores will be destroyed without eny any injury to the wheat |