Show u cleaning eanon 6 of or ir seed n wheat Is favored Fa voyed copper dust treatment Is quite useful in control of smut prepared by the united states department departs out of agriculture cleaning of seed wheat for the removal of wood seeds Is generally recognized and recommended as good farming policy and in recent years says the united states department of agriculture the desirability of the copper carbonate dust treatment of seed wheat for control of stinking smut or bunt has also had general acceptance early applications of the copper carbonate treatment were largely in hand machines but more recently power dusters have been perfected leaflet 33 L the combination cleaning and treating of seed when wheat V I 1 just published by the department part ment of agriculture for free distribution trib ution points out that the cleaning and and treating of seed wheat may well be applied th in a single operation useful machines the authors point out that several successful machines for either dither the cleaning or treating operations are on the market and that they may be combined and mounted on trucks so sis ns to be easily moved from farm to 1 farm or set up as sta stationary equipment also several makes of machines de signed designed to combine cleaning and treating in one operation are now on the market lost last cearan eastern railroad mounted equipment in tin an old baggage car to serve wheat growers aloo along its lines and to demonstrate the value alue of the two treatments mounted machine the leaflet also contains a section describing a combined machine mounted on a truck and driven by a small gasoline engine which was ap operated asa as a community enterprise ln in san luls luis obispo county Crill california fornia last year the county farm bureau financed the equipment which ln in 1927 operated for nearly three months and served grain growers handling more than bushels bushel s of seed wheat in 1028 1928 inore more than farmers were served and even more seed grain was waa cleaned and treated this outfit can handle grain at an average rate of more than 50 bushels an hour the cost of the farmers Is low it averaged a ton in 1927 the leaflet which includes photographs and a drawing of the equipment in use may be obtained free on application to the united states department of agriculture washington D 0 |