Hay containing much ergot should not be fed. In years of scarcity when 

 such hay must be used, it should be well threshed before feeding, to dis- 

 lodge the poisonous sclerotia. Grain containing ergot should be thoroughly 

 screened before use and the sclerotia destroyed. Seed grain from an ergot- 

 ised crop should not be used if any other grain can be procured, and all 

 grain should be treated with formalin or bluestone before sowing as a precau- 

 tion against ergot and smut. 



Many writers have treated of Ergot, as Berkeley, Cooke, Worthington 

 Smith, Kerner & Oliver, Bessey, Halsted and many others. One of the best 

 and most recent articles of a popular but scientific nature is by Prof. E. M. 

 Freeman in his excellent "Minnesota Plant Diseases" (1905). Ergot and Er- 

 gotism are also treated of in all the leading encyclopaedias. 



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