Show S I Important III Made at J In Smoke Districts I Prof John A of ot the state agricultural college has announced that he lie will have a n report ready relly for publication cation In a R few tel days upon ullon the sub Rub subject Jeet of oe smoke anti and Its effect on the anImals and amid vegetation of oe time the Salt SnIt Lake valley For the this past pul year and n a half six ex cx experiment e x stations have been Joen conducted nt lit different points between the tha Utah Ulah and American Here I 1 pre the professor humus studio studied carefully this the problem which worries the In iii that vicinity mo has ha made name Homo Important discoveries hearing bearing upon thu Iho situation Prof contends that thin the gas which lI s tho thu lo to vege tege vegetation CR tation etc Is 18 g sulphur and that there IB is no known process of oC smoke con rout that will help matters any auly According I Ui Iff F the lie observations of Prof the thc amount of ore oro or bundled dally Il Uy by Imy the Ill U is about pO u Of OC lids he lie states ap up approximately proximately omie third or pound goes HOP Into the hue air AS all dioxide When Wh n the Ille gas commIts OlIS Into Inlo contact with water It U IA readily dissolved and In Inthis inthis this form foran duns does most of lit the damage as 1111 asIt asit It II H ts Into Inlo the Ihl fiber liber of ot a plant and auth destroy It II Besides 1 tile the di dioxide dioxide oxide a great groat rent deal of ot flue Olle dust con mostly of Iron Is II scattered tl over 01 tile the country anti and when U it comes romeR Into Intoe contact e with water tar It forms Corm ferrous oxide or ur ry rust ru t many ninny farmers fanner mistakenly blame bionic for sup damages to In vegetation I Nor tae the sulphur gas gall Itself th thu vegetation Al At t our station sill lion we vo hl fed ed a I cow con upon bay ha from IIII of tim the wo worst rut affected fields In the lie smoke belt for tor Urn th past fifteen en months anti and she stilt Mill shows no in sign of Tho The ground Is III not nol Injured injure either by byth ii I Ith th the as nil many supt o e The rime s moki settle over ilver foI the lie Ih valley l for Iwen years without making any un dif IlIf difference ference to tf tie the III ground KrOll nIL Itself and there I need be hI no concern fell felt ov oer r this thu dan danger gee ger 1 However I gr source of ot damaRe perhaps the lie 1111 I III I source pomes from Hil union In Inter te sulphur dust settle on nil the snow when the Ihl IIno down In lii time the Ih l It U forms forns pool pools of f vinIer nt r In which much ul of 0 the time gas Kall U I dissolved and which are alp JI pol poison polon on I running at nl largo large In pastures sin un oft n Injured by h drink drinking drinking I ing this hilt water If farmer tanners would make IRk tilL trouble to 10 feed their cattle th tb I In barns they the 1111 I destroy thinking It II lo to be he poi pole nev they the save 0 n a great groat drill deal of lOll as iU cattle l antI and horses homes In lii tur lur get It thirty or forty times as an much of the tl lust dust as 11 when In barns berns owing to 10 1118 tact fact that thai they IhlY crop the tie gracs grass close closedown e down and auth often otten hick till the dust dunt coated l ground with their tongues Some ani aid animals animals mals male examined bv by J the station are foun l to 10 bo ha tnt fat and short of wind anti oth lIth others ers era lean find bony bon Just what affects them In Iii the hue smoke U Is not nol fully tully doter deter determined mined yet At butt but one thing Is 18 certain it itU ItIs ItIs Is U not tho the lend find amid It 1 Is III In an error tn to I of leaded horses mm to 10 hi lie smoke moke The he sIckness R may be ho lime due to the Hue flume dust dusl ot or the tue or O neither although It U must have hao some connection with the smelters The worst devastation lel the station has ha ascertained is 18 along the Iho course ot or the tue prevailing winds Potatoes eem to 10 bo ire easy prey Iry UK tat well It as us nearly every specie of ot Slower lower plants Then rome corns this the perennial plants are affected year otter after year ear and are arc finally Dually killed l If IC they mare are directly In Inthe inthe the line hue of nf greatest damage Corn scents to tn be the t And to 10 have the thc great greate e eat t chance the smoke |