★ POTATOES ★ 
SEMESAN 
BEL 
Low-Cost Treatment for 
INCREASING 
POTATO YIELDS 
Dip-treat your seed potatoes 
with New Improved Semesan 
Bel this season . . . and look 
forward to a bigger yield of 
better potatoes — at less cost! 
It’s so easy—just dip and plant! 
In actual farm tests, this quick dip 
treatment has given yield increases, 
averaging 13.6 per cent. It checks 
seed-piece decay, improves stands, 
and reduces or prevents crop damage from seed-borne Rhizoctonia and scab. Some 
gains have been reported as high as 25 per cent. 
Disease steals your potato profits by decreasing the yield and lowering the 
market value. A loss in yield of only 10 per cent frequently may represent the 
profit on your entire planting. Seed-rotting is another big loss in many sections. 
These two needless losses can be largely prevented by treating the seed before 
planting, with Improved Semesan Bel potato dip. 
Treat only uncertified seed? No . . . treat certified or apparently disease-free 
seed, too. It may carry even a small trace of disease that the treatment will over¬ 
come. And the certified seed will rot just as quickly in cold, wet soils as any 
other seed—therefore treating it is a paying operation. 
COSTS SO LITTLE—2 to 3 CENTS PER BUSHEL 
Because it costs such a trifling sum, compared to everything else you spend to 
put out a potato crop ... is why you should apply Semesan Bel to all seed. 
35.4 MORE BUSHELS PER ACRE BY TREATING 
On six practical farms in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Maine, Ohio and New 
York, careful records were kept—in actual field demonstrations, where seed 
potatoes were treated with Semesan Bel, and where they were not. . . . The 
average increase in yield on all six farms was exactly 35.4 bushels per acre 
— thus proving the wisdom 
of this quick one-minute 
dip. 
No question remains — it 
pays beyond all doubt to treat 
Seed Potatoes with improved 
Semesan Bel. . . . Prices: 4- 
ounce tin costs you 45 cents; 
1-pound tin, $1.50; 5-pound 
tin, $6.75; 25-pound pail, 
$31.00. 
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