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Show Manti Messenger, Thursday, April 14, 1977 Farmers Must be Licensed To Apply Own Pesticides During the past three months the Utah State Department of Agriculture and the Utah State Extension Service University have cooperatively presented training sessions for the certification of private pesticide applicators (farmers) through- information and instruction out Utah. According to Ray J. Downs, Director of Plant Industry, Utah Department of Agriculture, a total of 2800 farmers and ranchers have attended the Here is an old picture of the Manti Temple which one of our readers brought in wishing to have it identified. Is it a real picture? If not, who made it, when and why? Any of our readers who might know about the above picture to enlighten us. sessions to date. Says Mr. The program has Downs, been well accepted among our agricultural people. The statewide private pesticide applicator training program came about as a result of an amendment to the Federal Pesticide Law' in 1972. This change in the law requires that after October 21, 1977, anyone who purchases or applies any pesticide classified as restricted w'ill be required to obtain a certificate or license from the Utah Department of Agriculture. Each training session given to the farmer groups includes are invited Salt Storms Cause Power Outages 2 use pesticides, he said. Farmers who have not received certification by attending a training couse should contact their county agent or their local district agricultural inspector for information regarding future training programs. A farmer may also become certified by successfully passing a written examination which is available at the district agricultural inspector's office in his area. that the Utah State Department of Agriculture has the responsibility to certify those farmers who have participated in the prescribed training program. "It is the responsibility of the Extension Service to present the training and information necessary for a farmer or rancher to meet the required standards for certification. After October 21 , 1977, only certified applicators will be able to legally purchase restricted- - pertaining to the proper handling of restricted pesticides; use of proper safety equipment; types of pesticide formulations; interpreting label information; application techniques; and local pest, weed, and insect problems. Mr. Downs further explained Page Dairy Goat Association Through the inside passage to the Alaskan frontier Meet To A meeting of the Intermountain Dairy Goat Association will be held April 23 at the Sanpete County Fairgrounds in Manti at 2 p.m. Association President Duffy Lewis said that eveyone interested in dairy goats is welcome. This is a preparation meeting for the Buck and Doe Kid Show to be held Saturday, May 21 at the Fairgrounds, he said. Judge for the show will be Dr. Harland Renshaw', DVM, Moscow, Idaho. Food and refreshments will be available. The show will start at 9 a.m. and is sanctioned by the American Dairy Goat Association. All wins will be official if all rules of the ADGA are met. There will also be animals offered for sale, he said. Mr. Lew is said that this is the first Spring Buck and Doe Kid Show for the state. aboard the delightful XANADU Depart Vancouver with stops at Ketchikan, Juneau, Glacier Bay, Sitka and Wrangell. days of armchair comfort and fabulous Alaskan scenery. 8 Make your reservations now with Duffy lewis, Fountain Green 445-359- 4 E. OR Call Toll Free DESERFT TRAVEL You are about ready to sit down to dinner. There is no wind, and the slight drizzle that had begun a few minutes ago has stopped. The lights go out. And, later, you learn from the radio the power outage is weather caused. Weather? There w'as no wind. No snow. Just a few drops of rain. The circumstances are typical of the outages that have been recurring for the past few months. They are caused by conditions unique to Utah, particularly western Utah. Utah . a reader found this picture in the ANOTHER MYSTERY. old Osmond Olson home. Can any of our readers identify it, . . and is there anyone local on it? UtaliMmsm. Whatfsiito you? " The skier helps build, our resorts. out-of-sta- te Power & Light Co. explains that the outages are due to The salt storms. utility said that the state has been especially vunerable this unusual weather year to fronts from the west and northwest. The fronts, introduced by wind carrying salt, minerals and alkalai, deposit a coating on power line insulators. This insulator contamination does not affect service, the company says, until a slight drizzle occurs not heavy enough to completely wash them. In effect, when the insulators are moistened, it makes their coating of mineral and salt dust highly conductive and causes current to leak into the pole top or pole crossarm. Usually this leakage causes a pole top fire, dropping the conductors and the circuit trips out. UP&L System Operations Supervisor Gary Adams said there were more than 80 transmission pole top fires in the month of March alone the greatest number in many years according to UP&L records. In addition to customer inconvenience, its costly. Re- placement poles, including labor, average $1,000, This figure does not include distribution pole top fires which occur more often than transmission facilities. Particularly vunerable are FUNK'S Come Through G-HYBRIDS For Your Specilic Water Situations FOR SILAGE: G-57- 125 Days is you have adequate water, the one to plant! Top yielder in University Trials, it produces dependable yields of high gram content silage. 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