230 FARM FRIENDS AND FARM FOES 



Corn Smut 



1. In your neighborhood, is Com Smut more injurious toswee^ corn 

 than to field corn? Is it more destructive in gardens where sweet com 

 is planted in the same place year after year than in gardens where the 

 sweet com is rotated with other crops? 



2. At what time do the first black spores develop on the smutted 

 ears? 



3. Do the people of your locality take pains to cut out and burn the 

 diseased plants? 



4. Make a drawing of a diseased ear of com. If there is a com- 

 pound microscope in school, make sketches of the spores as seen with a 

 high-power objective. 



