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Show THE CITIZEN 16 company with a big bonus and a 12 SCIENCE STUMPED burcent which the takes per royalty den of development from the West-lan- d The Department of Agriculture has company been stumped by the leafhopper which On the West anticline the Westland practically killed the sugar beet crop has 980 acres adjoining the San Juan in this state. The whitefly bites the in the midst of the Mexican Hat field main artery in teh sugar beet leaf. The and 2560 acres on Cedar Mesa further leaf then curls up and the sugar beet to the west. The south end of West becomes worthless as far as saccharanticline is called Hukllto Dome and ine is concerned. As the leafhopper two wells are being drilled there by works underneath the leaf, spraying the Utah Development company. On is out of the question, and even if Cedar Mesa a joint test is being drillspraying was resorted to what effect Petroleum ed by the Midwest-Generwould that have upon the leaf? interests and these tests will prove It apepars that the department has the ground. The Westland also has never entered a campaign of extermacerage on the Organ Hock structure ination but insists upon control. In south of the San Juan. order to secure said control all sorts On all the districts where the West-lanof insects are imported until now this has holdings it has contributed country posesses most of the injurito the tests that are being made, assurous insects upon the globe. Right now ing a share in all production that may be secured. In addition it has spent the department has men in foreign fields chasing bugs that may eat other $70,000 in equipment in three outfits bugs. in Wyoming. When the alfalfa weevil appeared, Upon this showing the Westland and it was found in this valley first, company, was reecntly granted & permit by the blue sky commission of instead of plowing up the acreage and destroying the weevil, it was reportMichigan to sell stock in that state. ed that the bug wTould die off itself This is admittedly one of the strictest states in the union in regard to the in three years but it did no such a thing. It just increased until it found selling of stock. The company is opening offices in Detroit under the its way into all of our alfalfa fields and farmers are having a hard time direction of William Lemen, who will to fight it. have charge of eastern stock selling The most sensible thing to destroy operations. these crop destroying pests we have The policy of Westland, according heard of is the trap. The crap catchto President Ewing has been to build es the insects that lay the eggs, and a permanent institution. To this end if a trap can be made that will take it is proposed to drill only in proven elethe number of insects that is claimed fields, foregoing the speculative ment to the desired goal that the for it, we are of the opinion that it stock will be an investment and not a would not take long to get rid of the gamble. pests. The government has spent millions of dollars listening to bug sci. COMPANY BOGUE SUPPLY entists and the scientists are about MACHINERY AND NEW USED where they started. Our fruit is sprayed with poison, and poison is maThe Bogue Supply Company is a even put in our drinking water. In chinery house, where not only the rich fact a government official quite reman, but where the man of small cently stated that the insects would means can find machinery and macontrol the earth in another fifty chine supplies to fit his pocketbook. years unless some method was found This company are dealers in new and to stop them. used machinery, electrical machinery Then why not spend a few hundred and motors, compressors, mine cars, dolalrs in trying to trap insects and hoisting and ore buckets, pumps, see how it will work. Of course trapdrills, etc. In fact the company speping would be stepping down considcializes in used machinery, and if necerable for a scientist and it might essary the company will make the inrelease a expense in a departstallation and set the machinery in ment that huge has failed to make good. place. The insects have destroyed the cotThe Bogue Supply company made ton crop; they destroy all fruit unless the change from steam to electric for sprayed many times a season with the Chief Consolidated mine at Tintlc, arsenic poison; the hay crop has been resulting in a big saving for that comhit hard and now our sugar crop in pany and better service. this state has been sacrificed because M. J. McGill, manager of the comno scientific way has been found to pany, is an experienced machine man control the leafhopper. and is always ready and willing to Do you remember the lucious apmake bids for setting up machinery, or ple in early days when there was no will purchase machinery from plants spraying and the bees buzzed among that go out of business. the fruit blossoms? Now we cannot Manager McGill also announces that even raise apples from our own seed g his firm is now making a but must send to Europe for our aptroughing idler for belt conveyors, ple seed, according to all reports. And made of all steel that will do the the bees have nearly all been killed work in a most satisfactory manner, and which can be sold to compete with out in the valleys. eastern products of a much inferior Irvin Cobb has gone abroad to type. The companys downtown office Is spend some of his American made located at 107 West Second South money and in search, as he states, of He says: If I can find a street, and the yard, shops and plant liberty. Sevare located at Third South and country where people are still free, I will stay there. enth West Streets. aiiliillllillilliilillliliiliilillllllilllllllllllllllllllillilliiliililliiliiliiliiliiliiliiiiilillllliilillllinililiililllllllliilllliii:, al d and UTAH made GASOLINE 3 VOU know the Utah Oil Refining Company principally through its products, chief of which are VICO Motod Oil and Utah made Gasoline. These products are of uniformly high quality, and are sold on their merits. But every time you buy them, you help, consciously or unconsciously, in the upbuilding of your states industrial life. Let us explain: The Utah Oil Refining Company represents an investment of several million dollars; employs constantly about 500 workers; distributes monthly about $65,000 in pay checks; pays one of the biggest freight bills in the state and pays large amounts in taxes to the state. Moreover, this company has invested upwards of $1,500,000 in oil development in Utah, assisted in bringing in Utahs first gusher, and is still carrying on in this work. Other things being equal and as to quality, VICO and Utah made Gasoline acknowledge no superiors is there any reason why you should not specify these products when you drive in to your service station for oil and gas ? They are NOT higher priced! ball-bearin- Manufactured and Guaranteed by 1 r. 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