Show TREATING SEED POTATOES many farmers who formerly bisin fectea their seed potatoes by a long time lime soak in a corrosive sublimate or formaldehyde solution now use the hot formaldehyde or organic mercury treatments which take only a few minutes by either cither of these methods one man can treat bu of seed in a day at a cost of only 1 an acre gains in yield ot of from 20 to SO 30 per cent often results from seed soak the seed tor for 3 or 4 minutes in a solution of 1 pint of formaldehyde orm to 16 gallons of water kept at a temperature og to degrees F the containers in which organic mercury dips are sold rive give directions for treatment the solution is usually made by adding I 1 pound of 0 chemical to 2 gallons ot of water treat the seed before sprouting occurs and prior to cutting it II potatoes are treated several weeks before cutting do not put them lu in containers in which untreated tubers have been stored unless the containers also are dis infected |