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Show New Sup Beet Pest Not Dungorous If It Is Handled Properly. This week several farmers have had tholr young sugar beet plants greatly Injured by u little green worm which In a fow Instances has eaten tho leaves from n blfj part of tho patch. Whllo It Is probable tho leaves will shoot out again, yet It will retard their development de-velopment and slightly affect the final yield. Joseph W. Oontes says that Saturday Satur-day liu did not notice any Injury to his Hold, but on Tuesdny a large part of u flve-ncro Held had been cntcn ofT. A closo Inspection roveniled tho pres-eneo pres-eneo of a little green worm which hnd donu the mischief and then hidden bonenth tho surface of the soil. A curious fact Is that his brother Georges Held, Immediately adjoining, showed no perceptible Injury, tho ren-son ren-son probably being Umt the uninjured vanccd'' 8,,U'rUl ''"ya rur,hcr ad- A curious fact connected with them Is hat thoy ulll intch 0, j0? and bo gone In eight days. Dr. Titus, ho Agricultural Collego bug man has been making study of thS pes bu? has found no hotter remedy than that yorkt"' . by the farmers Mho cuN front of tho cultlintor to brush the worms off for theo ultluitor to cover ?" fi,JC,,r?y . '" 80,nP '""""ccb this Is followed by rolling crosswnys n II ,, Idea that the beets should not be thinned till tho worm's elgn -. lay fe has been ended, as by doing so Jin'0 '8. bu,' ,!bm" one-tenth of thS foliage to feed upon |