Show SHORTAGE I J BEET CROP Due Duc to the Ravages of the White Fly Which Efforts Fail to Eradicate American Fork ork Tune June Chris Peter Peterson son SOD of Lehi c crop ill inspector of the Utah r factory ass AS In American Fork to 4 and reports that tm the et bt crop of the north Berth pod end of county has haa suffered a alies 1 lies of due to the white fJ fly flyThe The flies files which hover hoer near the crown or of the beet beel seem to have hae a poisonous 1 upon It causing It to die slowly This L La the first year this thin fly has hils made its appearance in tI this section Tile The earl early bl besets which have now new got ot a good start seem m to have hayt gone one beyond the effects or of tise fly It it is the later beets which are affected the W worst sot as yet being rig I R enough to outgrow the of r the tta mysterious th lv The IM late crOps that were up to the standard oDe ago have been so affected that they no now are not more than 50 per cent of what they ha have been It It Is l he possible to lo eradicate the fly not b being in ink k r by poisonous spray I it biding down on the under of the h beet ii tops lops Several attempts have hae been made to Iu successfully use ue the sprayer but they thC proved futile The b blight ht which bleb affected ted them tI m last lasta year a causing a whiskered r growth to f form formon on the h beet Is not in evidence hers this i season The farmers art are somewhat to find what bat gave premise or of oran an extra heavy htaY yield cut dons to a bare half which ma may be stilt still further de decreased creased b by the ravages o of the fly This I fly has ha been a source of trou trouble to the thet beet t raisers of Colorado but W was never neverseen seen here be before I |