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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, xgo f & S DESERET FARMfiR la by the fungus and -eventually is con verted into the characteristic smut. Of these .smuts, those parasitic on cultivated crops arc frequently very destructive and reduce the yield of the grain. But there arc instances in which the fungus mr.y be beneficial to man. For example, the pestiferous fox-tail grass is frequently attacked and its annual crop of seeds conse quently reduced. But unfortunately in his instance the amount of injury is scarcely noticeable the next year. The smut of grain can easily be pre vented. The simplest method is to sprinkle the seed with a solution of formalin of the strength of one pound' formalin to fifty gallons of water until the seeds arc nearly moist enough to pack in the hand. The seed should then be shaken about or t shoveled over into a pile and covered with isacks. After a couple of hours or more the seed is ready to sow, or they may be spread out and dried 'i and kept for future sowing. Formalin is a gas disolvcd in wat er, and' the reason for covering the ; seed is to keep the gas confined and 1 ... give it time to penetrate between the chaff of the grain and thus reach 1 - .. .. .- - every spore of the fungus and kill it. After, the spores of the fungus are killed it matters not whether the seed is sown at once or dried and sown at a later time, but if kept for later sow ing the seed must be stored in sacks or bins which arc known to be free from smut spores. Otherwise there will be no appreciable value in the formalin treatment. FARMERS ATTENTION! W are in. the market at all time for Wheat, Oata and Barley. Write to ua for price. We pay Spot Cah. DAVID ROBBINS & CO. Salt Lake City, Utah. PROPOSED LEASING LAW. In the West they arc much stirred up over the proposition to tokc from the unreserved, unappropriated public (Fomain reserved for settlers a vast area of 300,000,000 acres and place it in the Forest Service and lease it out for fencing and grazing for the big cattle barons and others whose inter ests arc being crowded by encroach ments of the homesteaders. This would shut out settlers from a pretty big strip of country well, equivalent to an area 200 miles wide and over 2,000 miles long. This land is not included in the; lands concerned in the regulation of streams or con servation of timber supply. This vast area has never been included in the Forest Reserves; it is part of the pub lic domain awaiting settlement. The agricultural lands of the public domain belong not to the people of the West alone; they belong to the citizens of every -state in the Union. Anybody may go out there, take up ai homestead of 160 acres, and make a home in the manner the law specifics. The act of June 4, 1897, which set aside timtbercd "areas and mountain watersheds for Forest Reserves spe cifically and distinctly forbade the in cluding of lands good only for other purposes. The idea was that the in terest of the settlers should have firsc consideration. Land unavailable for timber protection or rofoncstration or for conserving the flow of streams was to be kept open for farms and homes and communities. Under the proposed "leasing policy ' any big cattle magnate may lease ami fence up for ten years as much as 10, 000 acres; his friends may lease next door to him 10,000 more, and another friend the next, 'and so on. It is not likely that any settler H would care to undertake the rcspon- H sibility of taking a family upon a M homestead within such inclosurc; his M life would be a sultry one at best. M But the settler is not likely to have H this opportunity, for if the leasehold M has had one penny over $100 spent on M it by the cattle owner (which amount H is easily covered by the fence), the H lessee has a right to debar the settler M from entering. Globe-Democrat. H 4 H V STEADY-GOING. A shooting party, putting up at fl Amos Libby's Maine camp, found M their sport much interfered with by M rain. Still, fine or wt-t, the old-fash- H ioncd barometer that hung in Amos's H general room persistently pointed to H "set fair." I At last one of the party drew his H attention to the glaw. H "Don't you think now, Amos," he H said, "there's Something the matter H with your glass?" H "No, sir, she's a good glass an' a H powerful one," Amos replied, with H dignity, "but she ain't moved by H trifles." Companion. .,iifl at LH BV BBBaH t Iron Clad Hubs; Bent and I mmmmmmgBAmm Double Rivited Felloes; Out-I I ,BilSE??Slly er Bearings; Strongest and 1 P BSSMMPl'y Lightest Running Wagon in I I in JlSJwkBBeeVBvw RP!flHvK m aal iM.MaeeeBaBfe- wiiMasSaiaaaaTcTaaa7aaaaaaBaawaaaaMaaaaaaaiaph.ai j, B nJa ja mm m jy a aav OUR ORCHARD WAGON BURTON IMPLEMENT COMPANY I WI WILL TMCA.T YOU BIGHT In correspondence and dealings, mention the "Dcseret Fanner." OGrDEH f UTAH !