Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1914 — SAVE CORN FROM SMUT [ARTICLE]

SAVE CORN FROM SMUT

Use of Formaldehyde Retards Smuft and Gives Plant a Good Start Prof. L. R. Waldron of the North IHikota experiment station suggests the advisability of treating seed corn for smut This treatment would bq with formaldehyde the same as for oats. He does not claim that the smut will be killed, but it will be retarded, giving the corn seedling a chance to grow away from the mold before its germinating power has been so weakened that serious damage has been done.