Formaldehyde seed treatment for oat smuts
By: V. F. Tapke
Contributors: United States. Department of Agriculture
Edition: Revised.
Series: Miscellaneous publication / United States Department of Agriculture -- no. 21; Miscellaneous publication (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) -- no. 21.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Published: 1929
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Cereal smut diseases; Control; Oats; Diseases and pests; Formaldehyde; Seeds
Description: Smut in oats causes a large annual loss that can be almost wholly prevented by treating the seed. There are two kinds of smut in oats--loose smut and covered smut. Both are controlled by treating the seed with formaldehyde. The treatment is cheap, easy to apply, and very effective. Its use, therefore, is advised whenever it is known or suspected that the seed came from a smutty crop or from a crop grown near fields of smutted oats.
Notes: Cover title.

"Issued March, 1938. Revised February, 1929."