Show ir i j 6 MOBILIZE 1 r TO BATTLE ARMY Of INSECT PESTS Grasshopper Sugar Beet Beef I Leaf eaf Hopper Invasions Feared W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON July 16 AP AP- AP An n Increasing army of insect pests was was was' reported mobilizing today to plague e the western estern farmer and plans were ere pu pushed punned hed forward in the offices and laboratories of at the de department department de- de of at agriculture to to combat the invasion An outbreak of of t grasshoppers forecast fore tore cut cast by the department two months go aero was described as apparently materializing in half halt a a. dozen states Dr W. W H. H Larrimer department etymologist at the same samo time reported re reported reported re- re ported a host of ot range caterpillars capable of at laying waste to thousands thou- thou sands Bands of acres res of grass grass' was gather gather- gathering ing In in northern New Mexico Meanwhile other department etymologIsts ety- ety Indicated the dread sugar beet leaf leat hopper described hopper described as on ono 0 of or the most serious existing drawbacks drawbacks draw draw- backs hacks to the beet heet industry industry might might t appear in fn greater numbers than last year car Grasshoppers Gr sl similar to the locusts lo pIo- 10 which havo plagued Egypt and Palestine since Inco Biblical days o reported increasing throughout through through- out the entire United States al- al thought threatening most in North Nor and So South th Dakota Michigan Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska Idaho and Colorado An ex expected expected ex- ex outbreak in Montana was averted b by cold wet w weather ather at egg hatching time grasshopper is not U the e dread pest Iest of ot the west it used to be Dr Larrimer said toda today Although it eats practically everything e edible isborn Isborn is isborn born hungry bungo and never satisfies its Appetite a a poison has been devised capable of ot killing tho the pests pest in such nuch great numbers they fall fan thirty to the square foot He said Mid experiments were being conducted by the agriculture department department de de- nt to cheapen the cost of this bran mash arsenic poison polson and give it ft wider use A curious Insect was beIng be beIng being be- be ing Introduced in the west welt to combat com com- combat bat tho the range caterpillar Dr Larrimer LarrImer Lar- Lar rImer said Feeding on its Us enemies' enemies eggs gS he explained the wasp should wipe tripe out the caterpillar within four years No means has haR yet been devised to combat the sugar beet leaf leJ hopper other etymologists disclosed In Intensive Intensive In- In experiments are being conducted conducted con con- ducted to tp dl discover cover a means n of chemical chem chem- ical kat control |