Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-04-11 | Page 1 | Sugar Beet Has Many Enemies

I SUGAR BEET HAS F MANY ANY ENEM S SL L' L WASHINGTON 11 The The April The sugar lf iga beet has baa moro more thoro enemies than any other agriculture product of ot the tho country In Ia InI Inthe th the south flea beetles and blister beetles attack it from froni Michigan to Kan Kansas MS the grasshopper and in other oth r sections the white grub grab the curly to top fop leaf hopper the tho webworm the tho wireworm wire wirt wireworm worm tho the army worm and the beet boet aphis Tho The department cf agriculture l estimates es es- that the annual loss lois to the sugar beet growers grow from insect pests runs from to The department is ii I conducting experiments in an an effort to find effective means of preventing thi this los loss Colorado Cali Call fornia and Michigan n grow about 75 per percent percent cent of the worth of sugar beets raised in the country