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Show mercial peach and apricot orch-1 ards, should be protected from this common pest. According to Clarence D. Ash-ton, Ash-ton, Extension Horticulturist, the peach tree borer does more damage dam-age to stone fruits in actural dollar dol-lar value than any other insect. Serious damage is done to peaches, peach-es, apricots, prunes, and plums unless un-less a careful control program is followed. Fourteen 4-H club winners of trips to the national 4-H club congress con-gress at Chicago in December will FARMandHOME&j " liTAH STATR EXTKNSION SKKVICE ACICILLl.TUKB HU.Mli ECONOMICS Peach tree borers should be controlled now, before cold and stormy weather sets in, if it is to achieve maximum benefit to the orchard, advises Dr. G. E. Knowl-ton, Knowl-ton, Utah State Extension Entomologist. Ento-mologist. "Use either ethylene dichloride emulsion or P.D.E. crystals, as you prefer, but treat soon" the Entomologist warned. Home orchards as well, as com- be selected Oct. 13, plus six other winners in activities in which bonds or watches will be awarded, David Sharp Jr., Utah State Extension Ex-tension 4-H club leader announced. Utah this year is eligible to send sixteen 4-H club members to the national club congress. Two of the winners, in canning and ! dress review, were chosen at the j recent Utah 4-H Centennial exhi-: exhi-: bition, and the other fourteen will be selected by their entries to be judged Oct. 13 at the Extension Service headquarters, Utah State Agricultural College in Logan. These other fourteen will be chosen in the following subjects: Home improvement, farm safety, gardening; better farm and home methods, electric; health improvement, improve-ment, field crops; poultry, food preparation, girls' record, clothing cloth-ing achievement; meat animal (2 trips to be rewarded) ; tractor maintenance, dairying. Projects offering watches and bonds to state winners and Chicago Chica-go trips to regional winners were announced by Mr. Sharp as follows: fol-lows: Leadership, with awards to I '. I one girl and one boy on county and state basis; frozen foods. It should be possible to eradicate eradi-cate both bedbugs and disease-j spreading lice, with such a potent ; weapon now available as DDT, de-! Clares Dr. G. F. Knowlton, Utah ' State Extention entomologist. j Control results to-date reveal that with a little effort and care, man can easily destroy all bedbugs bed-bugs and human lice, and that most livestock lice and fleas also are very susceptible to DDT, whether used as a spray or dust. Chlordane, another new and ! highly ' encouragnig insecticide, j makes an effective louse powder. ! However, more research is needed i before its general use for louse control will be fully justified. Wth cold weather approaching, dairymen of Utah should take stock on their feed situation for the winter months, Lyman H. Rich, Utah State Extension dairyman, dairy-man, warned today. "The best assurance of continued contin-ued income on the dairy farm during dur-ing cold weather is an extra stack of hay and a few bushels of farm grains in the bin," Mr. Rich said. Roughage is usually the cheapest cheap-est feed on the dairy farm even though a' "alfa is now above $20 per ton, he pointed out. Despite the high prices now being paid for grains, Mr. Rich warns farmers against selling themselves short on feed. "Some farmers have been tempted to rush out and sell their farm grains and find themselves short sail their own grains and buy of feed next spring or they often reac'y-mixed feeds." Good alfalfa silage and farm grains are good for a 350 or 400-pound herd level. ! |