Show SMUT TAKES MILLION DOLLAR TOLL utah grain farmers are losing loing dollars annually over one million on account ot of discounts an and d reductions in ill yield ot of wheat because 0 ol 01 f smut says J C hogenson extension agronomist of 0 the utah state stale agricultural college the average production of 0 wheat in utah during tile the years 1929 to 1932 was bushels at the governments grain checking station at ogden per cent ot of this wheat graded smutty causing a loss of and a similar loss due to lo washing charge smut took a toll of 0 20 percent of the possible production yield with a loss ot of to utah tanners farmers this brings the to lil ioas goes duo to smut to over sowing clean seed on clean ground and thoroughly treating seed according to approved methods will save most of this loss to the grain farmers ot of utah says mi at Il hogenson |