Show DIFFICULT TO GET RID OF CORN SMUT rotation Is recommended by colorado expert as the best method in large fields by 11 E VASEY agricultural college fort jart collins Col llna how can you prevent smut inborn in corn would a seed treatment destroy it unfortunately there is no practical method of preventing corn smut A seed treatment does no good because the smut itself Is not carried on the grain as it Is in the case casa of wheat or oat smuts corn smut lives over winter in the soil and gains entrance to new plants by means of spores which pass from the soil to the tender parts of the corn plant where infections are started where it Is not too impractical as tn in the case of small fields of sweet corn the smut bolls may be cut off before they break open and then burned this of course makes too tod much labor where the field Is of any great size rotation of crops Is to be considered the most effective way of handling corn smut A soil which is badly contaminated tamina ted with smut can be sown to oats or wheat or other crops tor for a period of two years vears and then followed again with corn very little it if any corn smut will persist in the soil for or a longer time than this |