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Show ECOLOGY STUDY MAY LEAD TO PEST CONTROL Professor Harold' It Hagan, ha. tractor In botany at tb University Univer-sity of Utah, nndertooa: the aludy of ecology in tha sute during the summer month. Ecology la one of th subjects in soology and botany. bot-any. It Is concerned with discovering discov-ering th relationship between animals; ani-mals; Including Ineaots, and their environment of plant Ufa, waver, coll and cllmatio conditions. This la tha first time a thing Ilk thla haa been atarted, but now that Professor Hagan baa planted several statlona and obtained aid from colleges and universities throughout the country lie expects to do great thing In thla Una nest year. Attention waa centered this summer sum-mer upon btapl and Bon canyons near Freedom, Sanpete county, which 'have limited vegetation and a comparatively small amount of animal life. - The season waa spent largely In collecting to find out exactly what plants and anlmala llv there. The collection were made also with a view of starting a representative collection of anlmala and plant for the stste university. Several hundred hun-dred specimens have been added to the eollectlona. The factora Influsncln tha development de-velopment and life of Insect are so llttl known that euch studies ar apt to be of great help la learning what condition produoo aa abundance of Insects of an Injurious In-jurious or beneficial sort. Mosquito Mos-quito elimination haa been thoroughly thor-oughly dlsoussed, yet the problem ot controlling these pests I on of changing the environment, eo that tha mosqultos .cannot breed and live In the place. According to Dr. Hagan, the atudy of ecology la the moat Important phase in the elimination of . harmful anlmala from a locality. |