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Show TO PROTECT SUGAR BEET CROP (I'lah Agricultural College IVeeklj Notts Letter.) I.caf-apot ono ot tho most serious and widely distributed diseases or the sugar beet, can bo controled by a careful Bystem of crop rotation and by deep fall plowing. By reducing both tho tonngo nnd tho sugnr content con-tent of tho beet tho lenr spot dlsense Is a Borloua menace to tho prollta or bed growers. In addition, the dlsense lessens to a very npprecinblo, extent tho, reeding vnluu or tho beet tops. Sugar beets nro or courso grown primarily pri-marily for the money value of the roots, but topa uro also very Import-uut Import-uut ns stock feed. A bad visitation of lenf-apot will reduce tho feeding value of the. tops nt least CO per cent. The department of Rntomology nt the I'tnh Agricultural Collego recommends that In order to control the dlsense, n proper pro-per system of crop rotation be adopt. , irnr totvnrd eliminating the pest 1 Iiuwiionlno Sheds Many farmers . re using fur their machine sheds, ih open Immiwiis Are you ono of tln-m? Hate Your Hen .Mopped l.iijlni Tho weather Is fatorahlo for poultry poul-try and It Is asto ilshlng that at this tlmo of tho year Iikto should be such a scarcity of eggs The early pullets should bo laying i ov ns well na the old hens, If they had been given tho proper ntteutlon. Farmer who hne a side lino or poultry railing should prepare ror this leasou of tho year as thcru la always a good muiket and a good price for eggs. The Poultr Department or th- Ftnli Agilculturnl Collego bus doveli nud o lion that luis laid SIC egga lu llw years. To do this she did not op laying ub booh ns tho cold tu.it i olmi( ,.,.,! iiml ho prlco or rgga .,t u, i,ut if.j,i 'Iglit on when 1 r - ,j .,. ,llrA fd This, indeed Is essential to go.m running wluther leuf-spot diseusi , lata or not. but the fuct thut u ia . x tiemely valuable in lighting .. ,-aeuso ,-aeuso la still nnother reusou why Ii should receive thu greutost attention from funnel a. Ceiinln pests like ihf fungus or the lenf-apot dlsense, cm, thrive only on ceitnln kind of plum When their food supply 3 cut off -. tho. planting of other crop, tU pests must Inovitably suffer. The fungua which cuusfa lenf-apot cannot as fai ns scientists have boen nblo to dla-cover, dla-cover, thrlvo upon smnll grains, corn, clover, alfalfa, cowpens. boans. and nmny other plnnts which uro in other respect sultnblo for n rotation with sugnr beets. Their use, therefore will not only improu the i.ui i,ui ,, r" Miamr ,, ,,,, '"' fl"'m" " i. h. i ..am,, I rolltnhli-t h 1 -Illi.UOVf )uil iiunlliy gtOCk ' Ke..j. ono of tl ,mora, m, It. .'-'da, fmcii ot Mymouu, 11. Wyatidotto. Orphl -on. 0r nhode I..' land Bed 3- Pre id., one c-lett. ury vrinltt free nest for l)V,.v four lite he,, 4co,.u,. ,. llittchI hy June 1. m,d si or t.ollUm. w birds ilurlun the emnluaer of the Hiimmor. 5-Uutl . ,K-4 duny 6 se nil .nall and .l,v eW, aMlomp 7-Mnrlcot egga 1 .(ueiity, ,wku wtk If ponlblo. .-In aelllng ,,,,, hn U10 tri,.actl , be on qHty hlf, for ir i are ,a been given the K, till system will m,(, ,nurt, 'itiiiu-y lo lln j, 1 11 , 1 , Cuder thu bludgeonluga of chance .My bend Is bloody hut unbowed. Beyond this plucc of wrath and tears Looms but the horror or the shade, And yet tho mennco or tho years Finds und ahnll find mo unafraid. It matters not how straight tho gate, How charged tho punishment the scroll; I nm tho Master of iriy Fate, I am the Captain or my Soul. W. K. IIENM3Y. |