1909 . 
<THEi RURAL, NBW-YORKEB 
PREVENTION OF CORN SMUT. 
J. B., Egg Harbor, N. J .—Can you in¬ 
form me how to treat seed com to prevent 
smut? I was troubled last year consider¬ 
ably with this disease, especially in the 
early planting. 
Ans.—T reatment of seed corn to pre¬ 
vent smut will not be satisfactory. In 
oats and wheat the germs of the dis¬ 
ease which causes smut are on the grain. 
By soaking the seed in a solution of 
one pound of formaldehyde in 50 gallons 
of water and sprinkling the grain with 
the solution many of these germs are 
killed. Thus the disease will not de¬ 
velop in the grain plants as it would if 
these germs were left alive. It is differ¬ 
ent with corn. On the ears which we 
CORN SMUT ON THE EAR. 
would be most likely to select for seed 
there will be but little smut. The 
smutty ears are so evident and so 
easily seen that they are usually de¬ 
stroyed. The germs which attack the 
crop do not, as in the case of wheat or 
oats, grow up in the plant, but enter it 
from the outside while the ear is form¬ 
ing. Thus soaking the seed will have 
little effect. The only practical remedy 
is to practice rotation, not growing corn 
on the same soil where a smutty crop 
grew and not using manure made from 
feeding smutty corn. The picture taken 
from a recent Delaware bulletin shows 
an ear of smutted corn. 
QUESTIONS IN SILO ERECTION. 
Wliat Is the value of tamarack lumber 
for a stave silo, compared with White and 
Yellow or Southern pine, especially the 
latter? ' Would painting the silo on the 
inside with a wood preservative such as 
Carbolineum be likely to injure the silage 
when it comes in contact with the walls? 
Would it render it injurious to cattle? IIow 
often should it be painted on the inside? 
How long should a silo of tamarack or pine 
last? Where can I get a good wood 
preservative and what should it cost? 
Berrien Co., Mich. E. 
As compared with White or Yellow 
pine, the tamarack is far superior, and 
would probably last several years longer. 
As between the Southern or Georgia 
pine, I would fully as soon have the 
tamarack, for the former varies very 
much in its make-up. Cypress is much 
better than either. Of course it must 
be understood that there is a great dif¬ 
ference in lumber from the same kind 
of wood, depending on where it was 
grown, i. e., what kind of land, and 
the time when it is cut. A well-con¬ 
structed wood silo, should last from 15 
to 20 years. Covered with Carbolineum 
it should last several years longer. I 
know of nothing so good as a wood 
preservative. If it is put on long enough 
ahead to penetrate and soak into the 
wood, which it will do very quickly— 
and the air has a chance to dry off 
the surface, there will be no damage to 
either silage or cattle. We used some 
on the walls of chicken houses last 
Summer, for an insecticide and disin¬ 
fectant and it injured the chickens’ eyes, 
when they were put in- the same day. I 
cannot tell how long it will last, but I 
doubt if it would be necessary to paint 
oftener than five years, perhaps longer. 
It costs $1 a gallon in small quantities, 
75 cents, I think by the barrel. 
EDWIN VAN ALSTYNE. 
255 
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_ _ _ __ As the cut shows, this ACME has 
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