OCR Text |
Show TELLS FARMERS HOW TO KILL CUTWORMS Special to The Tribune. OGDJEN, June 19. Cutworms that have been creating havoc with the young tomato to-mato plants in Weber county fields will fall easy victims to a concoction greatly resembling a delicious fruit salad, but containing white arsenic, according to V. P. Thomas, county agriculturist, who has been appealed to In the difficulty. The worms will leave the plants to devour the tasty fruit salad if the farmer will onlv give them the opportunity, according to Mr. Thomas. Here is the formula: One bushel of bran mash, one pound of l'aris green or white arsenic (the arsenic probahlv is cheaper at this time), one-half dozen oranges with the juice squeezed into the mash and the skins cut into fine pieces, and two quarts of low-grade syrup. Mix well and sow the mash over the tomato field just as seed woidd be sown. ,-Yhv the fruit?" was asked of Jlr. Thomas. ' The cutworm has a sensitive nose and you must give him something to attract his attention from the tomato plant," replied re-plied the county agent. |