Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-21 | Page 8 | Preventable Pests Cost State Million

PREVENTABLE PESTS COST STATE MILLION Preventable losses in foodstuffs in the fields of Utah roach about the St, 000,000 mark, according to J. R Walker, state crop pes I inspector, who yesterday received re-ceived reports from inspectors in' four counties which go to bear out this assertion. as-sertion. In Ft a h county alone t he loss this year is shown to be a bout $500,000, the exact figures reported to da te being S4G0.000. This great waste. Mr. Walker says, is due to ravages of pests which m a large measure could be eliminated. Coddling moth, alfalfa weevil, smuts and grasshoppers are chiefly responsible for the losses and to the great total thus piled up must he added lies t ruction of product s by frost. Salt La Ice count v reports re-ports losses amounting to ?00,7."f. Weber county has a loss reported of from 2 to L'5 per cent in Its crops and Boxoldor's losses run from S to 20 per cent.