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In some townships the formaldehyde treatment would save the farmers 

 enough money to pay for the building of miles of stone roads. Should 

 not these facts stir the farmers to some concerted action by which they 

 would banish the smut disease from the State? The grain treatment is 

 simple, cheap and easy of application. It is up to the oat growers in the 

 State to make up their minds and do the right thing. A man in Madison 

 County, on whose farm a test of the formaldehyde treatment was made 

 this spring, was very much pleased with the results, and he said in sub- 

 stance : "Why it's a very simple thing. There's very little work con- 

 nected with the treatment and the cost can almost be disregarded. I 

 treated my seed for less than twenty cents. I wonder why I haven't 

 been practicing it long before." 



