THIS EASY, QUICK DIP LOWERS BUSHEL COST 
AND INCREASES BUSHEL PROFIT 
T ower production cost per bushel is the goal that you 
and every other progressive potato grower are striving 
to attain. But even though you use the best seed, adequate fer¬ 
tilizer, and thorough cultivation, these efforts towards lower 
production cost will be largely wasted unless you prevent 
disease from rotting your seed and sprouts, weakening your 
plants and reducing the stand, yield, and quality of your crop. 
Seed-borne scab and Rhizoctonia are two of the 
important diseases that play havoc with potato 
production costs. Only by controlling these and 
other destructive seed-borne diseases can you 
hope to obtain the lowest bushel cost and the 
greatest bushel profit. 
New Improved Semesan Bel now offers you a 
quick, easy, inexpensive method of controlling 
Rhizoctonia, scab, and other surface seed-borne 
diseases of potatoes. It provides you with a 
definite means of reducing production costs— 
and increasing growing profits. 
At a cost of only to 3 cents for each bushel 
of seed planted—for less, even, than the cost of the old 
“2-hour" soak methods, you can disinfect your seed potatoes 
by this effective, time and labor-saving dip method. Con¬ 
sidering the time, labor, and equipment expense, the 
Improved Semesan Bel method costs as little even as the 
formaldehyde treatments. A single pound of Improved 
Semesan Bel will treat from 60 to 80 bushels of seed potatoes. 
No 1J^2 to 2-hour soaking is necessary. 
Treatment Is Quick and Easy 
Th e Improved Semesan Bel method of treating seed potatoes 
is quick, easy, and effective. No special or costly treating 
devices are necessary. The simple equipment needed for 
using Improved Semesan Bel can be found on any farm. 
For small-scale treatments only a couple of pails are re¬ 
quired. For treating on a larger scale only a half barrel, a 
few wire baskets or crates, and a couple of planks for a 
drain board are all that is needed. 
Improved Semesan Bel comes in concentrated powder form. 
It mixes easily with water—-you simply dump it into the 
water, stir, and you are ready to begin treating. Potatoes 
can be treated as fast as you can fill and empty 
the baskets. Compare the ease and swiftness of 
this method with the old to 2-hour soak 
treatment. 
The Improved Semesan Bel method of treating 
seed potatoes is so much quicker and easier than 
any other commonly used method, that with it 
one man can treat 10 to 30 times more potatoes 
a day than with the old soak methods. 
Widespread Tests Prove Merit 
Extensive and exhaustive tests with the Im¬ 
proved Semesan Bel have been conducted under 
a wide variety of soil and climatic conditions—on light, 
sandy soil in New Jersey, Michigan, South Carolina, and 
Wisconsin; on heavier soils in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, 
Nebraska, and Oregon; on peat soil in Iowa and California; 
and under irrigation in Colorado and Idaho. Kansas, Mis¬ 
souri, Maine, New York, Ohio, Indiana, and North Carolina 
also have contributed proof of the exceptional efficiency of 
Improved Semesan Bel in the control of seed-borne scab 
and Rhizoctonia. 
The Improved Semesan Bel is now offered to you as a seed 
potato treatment that has been thoroughly tested for four 
years and has proved efficient under varying practical con¬ 
ditions in controlling diseases carried on the seed, in increas 
ing yields, and in lowering production cost per bushel. 
Small-scale treatment with 
New Improved Semesan Bel 
requires only two pails. 
