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Show MORE RESISTENT SUGAR BEET SEED AVAILABLE ' Research on sugar-beet breeding by U. S. Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture scientists has developed sugar beet varieties more resistant to curly-top, affording greater protection pro-tection to the grower and to the sugar-beet industry, declared Dr. G. F. Knowlton, Utah State Extension Ex-tension entomologist. In view of moderately high leaf-hopper leaf-hopper populations at this time, farmers are urged to plant a high grade of curly-top resistant beet seed early, in weir prepared seed beds. Proper care, such as early and thorough cultivation and watering to push the beets along rapidly in early season, is recommended recom-mended by the extension entomologist entomo-logist to insure a profitable beet crop this season. While the beet leafhopper population popu-lation in some breeding areas is somewhat higher than that of last year, the situation is not alarming, according to Federal Entomologists Entomolo-gists H. E. Dorst and Dr. Knowlton. Knowl-ton. Stormy weather of "the past few weeks, combined with predators' feeding on the leafhoppers in some local breeding areas, has somewhat some-what lessened the1 beet leafhopper population. Recent storms will delay the time of beet leafhoppers local movements to cultivated areas, which - will tend to lessen risk of crop injury, the entomologists ento-mologists explained. |