Show u a NEMATODE IN IX BASIN BASIN- I Dr B. B L. L Richards plant pathologist gist representing the Ut Utah h experiment I meat ment station and the time United Stat States s department of agriculture was Inthe in hm inthe I the basin on on Il Monday He was s m malting mak making malt malt- ing a survey surveyor of the alfalfa fields to to I determine whether or not the nematode nema- nema nema-I nema I tode ode disease of or alfalfa is present inthis in inthis I this this' locality The Time nematode disease causes the time I alfalfa plant r to turn yellow and rot at the base crown The plant when affected makes very little I gm growth The stand becomes very poor Joor and as ft t result the yield be becomes becomes be- be I be-I comes very low The rho disease is becoming becoming be he- coming very verr serious in jn some sonic other states as well as yin in some sections of or I Utah Dr PI Richards states that if the disease is not found to be present pleSent In Inthe Inthe inthe I r the basin measures will have ha to 0 ue aim tak taken n to protect it lit front from rom infection infection I from roam outside sources I 7 I |