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Show Smut Control In Oats and Barley In Sanpete Valley The fore part of this week was spent by Pror. J. C. Hogensen of the Agricultural College and the local county agent in checking on demonstration dem-onstration plats for the control of iiiiut in oats and barley with the dry dust treatment at Fairview, Mt. Pleasant Pleas-ant and Manti. in these tests dust treatments called Ceresan and Smut-tox Smut-tox were used as against the old wet method of formaldehyde and no treatment treat-ment at all. By careful counts of infestation where the three treatments were used side by side and properly applied there was only found approximately one tenth of one percent of smutty heads. Ou the other hand wherj the dry treatment was not properly administered there was found as high as ten percent smut infestation. . In one field in particular at Mt. Pleasant Pleas-ant in the check plat was used with no treatment at all smut infestaion was found to be as high as fifty per cent. If the dry treatment can be made as effectual as the wet, and these tests thus far indicate that it is where it is properly applied, then it will only be a matter of time until it will be adopted as a general practice on the farms, provided the price can be made a little more in keeping with the formaldehyde. for-maldehyde. In these same visits it was indicated indi-cated that Sweet Clover is be'ginning to come to its own In Sanpete County. Wherever it Is being used and particularly par-ticularly for pasture purposes it is giving splendid satisfaction, both to the farmer wno owns the land and the animals who eat it. A mixture of peas and oats Is giving good results re-sults as an emergency hay crop. County Fair time is nearing and every farmer and livestock grower will do well to save materials for exhibition ex-hibition as he is now doing the harvesting har-vesting of his crops and the culling of his flocks. The fair is the show window for agriculture; every farmer farm-er will do well to support the move. |