Show agricultural COLLEGE MAKES A REPORT ON INSECTS they destroy beets by sucking tho life out through the leaves from thursdays standard this letter is in answer to a letter sent to the agricultural college by job pingree which was accompanied by a sample of the flies that are attacking sugar beets asking the length ot alte and how to exterminate tha flies job pingree ogden utah dear sir the insects that are injuring your beets belong to the leafhopper leaf hopper family in part and partly to what wa call false chinch bags these insects do not bite but simply stick in their hill and suck they draw the sap out of he young beets and cause them to wither the little warts that you sea on the beet stems are their eggs it Is pretty late now I 1 am afraid to do anything with this brood they are about done and most of the beets that they have injured are too tar gono to help thare are two broods in a year and they may get numerous enough to do damage again in about a month usually however by that time the beets have become so large that they do not materially hurt it beets have water enough they can be destroyed by spraying with kerosene emulsion to do this successfully you would need to rig a gas pipe long enough to cover four to six rows with an attachment for a spray nozzle for each row by hanging this behind a wagon or cultivator about a toot from the beets with the nozzle pointed forward and down and then drawing a stick along in front so as to turn the beets about tho time the spray struck them most ot these little hoppers could be killed robert allson tha county fruit tree inspector can give you valuable information in regard to pumps regulating the apparatus and making tho emulsion on a large scale it you so desire I 1 am going to sanpete and se kisr counties to examine the work of this pest and it I 1 have any further suggestions when I 1 come back I 1 will drop you a note 1 I might be able to call and look the fields over in about ten days it you could arrange to have some one to take me around sincerely signed E D BALL A marriage license was today issued to M I 1 walden murcer colo and mrs E bratton ogden BEAUTIFUL VIEWS will advertise ogden and ogden can yon with the opening of the bamberger road and bamberger canyon resort next year the ogden canyon for the first time will be advertised extensively throughout the country at present it is the plan ot the company to insua a pamphlet containing views of tha canyon and the canyon resorts tho pamphlets to be distributed at all the large hotels throughout the country at present the beauty of the ogden canyon is not generally known to tha traveling public but it is safe to say that when that spot becomes known many tourists who now pass og den by on their way to the coast will stop off here and visit the canyon the pamphlet will not only contain views of the resort in which mr bamberger is interested but will also contain alews of the other resorts tor as mr bamberger said 1 I am not in the hotel business im a railway man and my resort will be simply a place for rest and quiet if people want a lively time they will have to go to the hotels and I 1 will be glad to recommend the other places to them the pamphlet will also contain views of ogden and should prove a great advertisement verti to the town USEFUL CUCKOO CLOCK paris july 16 baron bedalla Ge dalla secretary to the due de bellune had just returned from his club and was undressing when he heard the fotss ot a cuckoo repeated eleven times in succession and proceeding apparently from the conservatory over which his rooms are situated now the mansion ot the due de bellune Is in a quiet part of paris at the corner of rue weber in the although tha hotel is in the midst of a beautiful garden the baron had not noticed the cuckoo before involuntarily he thought of the watchdog watch dog which was poisoned ahrea weeks ago and of the robbery committed in the coach house immediately afterwards revolver in hand the baron went downstairs woke up the servants and began to search the garden it was not long before the telltale tell tale cuckoo clock was discovered and near it a broken bottle which ahad contained and which the thieves had evidently thrown away in their hurried flight |