Show INSECT PESTS prof E D ball I 1 in a the new years year tribune if it ii Is 13 not one ihling it la Is anotn er Is an old aa saying very applicable to insect pests and taken one year with another it will be found to held bold true some insect unknown as a pest becomes suddenly abundant for a bearor two does a large abou amou neof damage iund ae the people get thoroughly excia excited ed suddenly disappears app Lars only jorj to lie be replaced ep laced by some new intruder even more destructive in its clos and equally elusia lustre in its ita a sojourn e scarcely scirce ly barei rejoice ovir over the departure ot of ono one pest lest ho be called to mourn the i appear i ance of 0 another anis am wore more destructive jp M 10 N tu TO left to will genull things irig nicely balan ed antime and the then they go on that way until now factor actor comes in to change the t bala balance balanc hc then the pendulum Is td set swinging to one bile el ie and then the vo thor now one infect Is up now an alther rl c other ther until finally thoy they come to r v dead level again that is one of 0 th ilen aldes one rr bruit wit pay for IngeS LIUZ conditions one should not li licak cak up the h sh soll eoll int 0 doduc dlin new crops new industries dus tries kries change the course of of lh jhc thc str streams earns cut the elm r irom from the tha hills or resti aln the waters unless oneal one ii the price russian flax increased the yields of 0 flax na j in iowa but brought with it the mus tard ford that has been a scourge to jhc thc less daimer orr dubini the water for or tion in san pete pet county has diled up the Sau pitch sc BC i that it is now it breeding ground toi foi t gran hoppers on which our state hai paid bounty not that wo we should not but that we must expect to baythe price and tight fight the pests that come with the changed condl eions f then too there are the old stand bys lice lilie the codling moth the grasshopper i and the wooly aphis and ma ina fly more of 0 the brood that never entirely acao us they pay inay 1 fluctuate in numbers with the teason season but are always in evidence and us bally manage to he h at ai their worst ben least wanted the past season has been tile the worst in years tor for many kinds kinda ot of pests borne of thesa alf ate va bee 12 I 1 1114 of fed ors appearing in increased numbers orak mcw nc W localities while willea a few and among ahta some of tho iho most injurious have attracted general attention tor for the first time of the new peste dests the sugar beet insects have been bean by far ar the worst the damage done the I let iet et this year has lio liow not been the of 0 any one insect but bat a combination of 0 a hot season and about a dozen pests post sonly only three or four our of 0 which are in any tenso new and none of 0 these has been I 1 imported imp arted from rom other parts darts they are simply dimply insects that have always been with us ceding froding on he be pigweed red root rod and other wild re relatives latles of the on sugar gar bee bertand tand now or the he first time become numerous enough to attract ate tte ailon the beet leafhopper leaf hopper or white fly 18 it has popularly but wrongly been ailed has been credited with most ill all the damage in some sections this was undoubtedly true while in others the injury was largely the work of 0 other species the leat leaf hop boil per as with others of its kind hind does docs nolt not eat up kip tiny any part of the ills beet beet it sets ets its food easier than that by licking la in a long slender blonder bill and out the sap causing the leae ea to wither and and curl up thebert army worm form and web worm vorm on the other band are striped ater caterpillars pillars that d cavour bour the abe leaves it first folding in an edge and work ng under a covering of 0 silken hr breads oads but later eating large holes boles x n the fhe leaves or devouring the ibe entire I 1 town rown ot of the beet along with these were many othir kinds of insects some eating some the caterpillars and their ir ethren that lime have learned to chew levou devoured red several fields this season fore thorl the trouble was discovered but splay with parts paris green soon stopped their work on oil fields fielda when there vas aa anything on top of the land to pray the suckers like their finny lame sakes bakes are harder to catch a pray with kerosene emulsion when hey are little would have given hem a setback set back but at that time hey had not been discovered while the new pests were causing 0 o much trouble it was particularly ratifying to note the way in which omo ome of the old ones were being hall ban llad tied the red spider has done serious injury to several kinds 0 fruit alees throughout central and southern to utah this year many beany orchards snowed the unmistakable sticky yellow appearance early in the ear and gradually grew worse as the season advanced alongside Alon galde of these stood ather orchards clothes clothed la in a rich maltby green as ai too ta result ot of winter spraying The codling moth fully sustained ILS reputation on unsprayed orchards abot it year but in triny of the coun aos an unsprayed orchard of any size vaa aas the exception instead of the rule oven even more mor gratifying was the tact fact that a number of able more bave men by thorough early spraying and banding so eo radu cede to farb t brood I 1 oad da tiny thy sarty ug ng for tho season reason and still it was us rd to find a wormy apple in the aall |