seed in a 500 ml screw cap glass jar 1 5 ml of water was added dropwise to the seed with mixing the jar was capped and shaken vigorously for 1 minute 0 5 g of 500 mesh talc was added to the moistened seed and the seed was again shaken vigorously for 1 minute to uniformly coat the seed the seed was then air dried for 1 hour and packaged treatment no 10 apron u2122 terraclor u00ae at 2 5 g kg seed was prepared by placing 454 g seed treated with the commercially available mixture of these chemical fungicides in a one liter glass container 1 13 g of the mixture was added to the seed and the jar was shaken vigorously for one minute to uniformly coat the seed 100 g of this treated seed was overtreated with 1 5 ml water and 0 5 g talc as described in treatment no 9 treatment no 11 apron u2122 terraclor u00ae at 2 5 g kg seed and bacillus subtilis endospores 4 6 u00d7 10 10 spores g at 1 3 g kg seed was obtained by placing 100 g of the apron terraclor treated seed in a 500 ml screw cap glass jar 1 77 g of powder of 4 6 u00d7 10 10 bacillus subtilis spores g and 5 04 g of talc 500 mesh were dry mixed with a mortar and pestle 1 5 ml of water was added first to the 100 g of seed as in treatment no 9 to the moistened seed 0 5 g of the powder and talc mixture was added the seed was then vigorously shaken for 1 minute and allowed to air dry for 1 hour treatment no 12 bacillus subtilis endospores at.