Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-11-07 | Page 18 | Sprays Curb Fruit Insect Pests

Sprays Curb Fruit Insect Pests alt Lake county orchard! its, ooope rating with the etat extension exten-sion service, improved fruit crop I and reduced losses due to Insect peat during the past year according accord-ing to the annual summary report released Monday by V. L. Mar-tineau, Mar-tineau, county agricultural agent ' Apple and pear grower instituted insti-tuted an effective spray program to control worm and mites and nroducod a crop almost entirely free from worms the agsnt said. following the advice of horticultural horticul-tural specialists and the county agents, many of the orchardlats In the county converted from dean cultivation to asver arop on their lands. The change to cover crops has firoven satisfactory and gradually Improving soli conditions, Mr. Msrtineau reported. During the year, 10 fruit growers grow-ers participated in pruning demon-etration demon-etration conducted by Clarence D. A ah ton, Provo, extension hortlcul-turalist, hortlcul-turalist, Utah Stat Agricultural college, Logan, home 360 bulletin bulle-tin dealing with (pray mixtures were distributed to orchardlsta in Salt Lake county. Erie W. Dahl. Crescent, president presi-dent of the Salt Lak County Horticultural Hor-ticultural society, bad called a i meeting of county fruit gioweis early m the year to outline reoom- ; mended Improved methods of fruit production.