Show FLAYS UT IAN AHNS FOR WASTING FOOD WHOLESALE State Official Declares Criminal Carel Carelessness Is Displayed in State While the nation as a whole Is reported re reported reported re- re i ported to be making every effort to I stimulate conservation and and prevent waste more inure ore than worth of food eer every year Is being thrown to the dogs In fn Utah according to J. J B B. B Walker Walter Wal Wal- ker ter state crop pest commissioner Mr Ir Walker Valker declared that in to this age of oC food administrators I should look further than Ulan those whom they admonish to clean their plates He lIe lIeI I says that the food administrators should take i i sue with the fruit and vegetable growers The loss in Utah every year could be avoided according to Mr Walker Valker who says that the neglect shown while famished nations clamor for tor food is I criminal to the most pronounced deI de de- I gree As an Instance Mr l Walker aller reports that I more than worth of apI apples ap ap- apples ples pIes have been frozen or attacked by bythe bythe bythe I the codling moth in Utah this year Earlier picking would have saved 30 I to the growers while if Ie the grow- grow I ers era had sprayed trees in the spring the ravages of the moth Involving a I loss of more than would have I been prevented IDAHO ALSO GUILTY 1 Growers in Idaho are equally equall guilty according to Mr l Walker who believes that several millions of oC dollars worth of ot fruit and nd vegetables in the West Vest have been lost to consumption owing to sheer neglect It Is a crime said Mr Ir Walker that such conditions should be tolerated The fear of food shortage e has caused panic In many countries but plenty of oC fo food d could be supplied If it proper care was exercised in the fields of oC production Utah and Idaho have also suffered greatly in damage to potato crops caused b by the cold weather In some sections of Idaho it has been reported I to Mr l Walker alker 90 per cent of ot the crop Is is a loss In the Idaho Falls section alone bushels of potatoes have I be ben n damaged beyond hope of oC ever reaching a table In addition Mr Walker says that the I alfalfa crop was greatly damaged this year due to the activities of oC the weevil Smuts fa a fungus disease was responsible responsible responsible sible for the loss of oC many thousands of dollars worth of ot grain Such a loss could have been prevented if it the farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers had taken taleen the precaution to dip th the grain in a formaldehyde solution ac according according according ac- ac cording to Mr Walker Valker I GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE Grasshoppers also did considerable damage There is a possibility that I they will be more numerous numero s next year I unless the farmers take heroic measures measures measures meas meas- ures to throw up the lands and leave I Ithe the eggs exposed to the elements I Mr 11 Walker warns all farmers that i they should recognize it as their th duty i to tear up pastures ditch banks and spots not plowed in the fall or spring I with a spring tooth harrow Grasshoppers Grasshoppers Grass Grass- hoppers la lay eggs ggs in August and September September Sep Sep- sep sep-I tern bel and they hatch hath in the tho spring Unless steps are taken taleen to shake up the eggs Utah might be hI unfortunate to have billions more moie of or grasshoppers next year than last Such an event would be bo like a plague of oC locusts locust and unless extermination occurs before becore the warm weather n next year Utah growers might lose products worth hundreds of oC thousands of oC dollars through the activities activIties activities of ot grasshoppers alone If U this is IB really he age of oC tion said Mr Walker Valker let Us put our house in order by attacking the evil of oC waste at its root Not only the housewife house house- housewife wife but the grower should be enlisted in the great cause of oC conservation so that here never will be a a. cry crr in vain for tor food I |