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If so, to what extent? (Oeiieral, local, or occasional.) 



About how many bushels of smutted wheat from the past season's 

 crop did you buy V 



What was the average dockage on such wheat? 



Kindly estimate as closely as possible the total number of bushels of 

 smutted wheat from the past season's crop bought in your county 



What was the general average of dockage in your county? 



Is the formaldehyde (formalin) seed treatment practiced in your ter- 

 ritory? 



If so, to what extent, and with what success? 



What are the greatest pests of wheat, and the greatest drawbacks t() 

 its sncccssful culture in your vicinity? 



In your opinion how may t best' be ovei'come?" 



The following statistics are couipiltMl from 503 replies to these let- 

 ters: I'"iv(' counties were not heai'd fi'om. Keixtrters fi-oni r.ciiton County 

 replied tliat no wheat was raised in that cnunty. lOiglit counties reported 

 that stinking smul did not occur with them, and eight counties reported 

 it as occurring, but did not report tlie amount of snnit estimated present 

 or actually purchased. This leaves seventy counties from which we com- 

 pile oui' statistics. I'l'om tliese sex'eiity countii's V2- rei)orts were re- 

 turned, of wliich i)ractically all slated that stinking snuit occurred locally 

 or generally with them, showing tliat it is thoroughly distributed through- 

 out the State. 



Of these 422 rei>ort(>rs who i-ejilied. only 247 rejiorted the number of 

 bushels of snuitty wheat which they actually purchased. These were in 

 vaiwiiig amounts from lifty liushels by one corresi)ondent in Morgan 

 County, to ir>(MX»(> bushels by another in \igo County. In all there were 

 885,010 bushels .actually purchased by tliem. This was "docked" varying 

 amounts, from 2 cents to 40 cents per bushel, averaging Si cents i)er bushel. 

 This made a total reported loss to the State for 1!»10 of $75,27(i.8.5. Con- 

 sidering that only 247 of the 1,200 dealers written to replied with figures 

 fi-om which we can draw conclusions, it seems very conservative to esti- 

 mate the actual loss from stinking snmt to lie three times tliat rejiorted, 

 or about i!;225,fK>0 for the State. 



