Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — For Oat Smut [ARTICLE]

For Oat Smut

Spread seed on a clean floor. Sprinkle until moist with a solution of one pint of solution of formaldehyde to 45 gallons of water. About one gallon of solution will be required for one bushel of seed. Shovele the seed over and over to moisten every grain. Shovel into a pile and cover with treated sacks. Allow to stand over night. Dry sufficiently to run through a drill. Put only In treated sacks. Treat sacks by soaking two hours in the solution. The seed will swell and allowance should be made tot this when sowing. The reason why the world’s greatest future grain market is located at Chicago Is because there are 400,009,--000 bushels of wheat, corn, oats, barley, etc., received and shipped annually by the members of the Chicago Beard of Trade.