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Show I Local Beet Expert j On Inspection Trip i D. H. Whittenburg, agricultural ; superintendent for the Gunnison Su-. Su-. gar company, together with somo ;! twenty-five Sevier county farmers . from Richfield, Venice, Glemvood nn.l jAnnabella, and O. S. Fisher, extension 'agronomist, U. S. department of agriculture, ag-riculture, Washington, D. C, J. C. . Hogansen, extension agronomist, Utah State Agricultural college, Lo-. Lo-. gan, S. R. Boswell, Sevier county agent, and John Adams, Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes instructor of the Richfield high school, recently completed a tour of inspection of crop conditions in Sevier county, north of Richfield, and in the heart of the rich agricultural sections in and around Sigurd, Aurora, Auro-ra, Vermillion and Salina. The tour was arranged in cooperation with the South Sevier Sugar Beet association, associa-tion, and some fifteen sugar beet fields were visited. At each place visited, sugar beet :,, hay and grain were observed. Tlie tour revealed the fact that a sugar beet Nematode is making inroads In some of the sugar beet fields, particularly particu-larly in those fields which have grown sugar beets continuously for a lar;:e number of years. Professor J. C. Hogansen of tho Agricultural college, stated that the. only control for Nematode was crop rotation. This system of crop fanning fann-ing also helps to keep up fertility of the soil, keep down plant diseases and injurious insects, and helps keep noxious nox-ious weeds from getting a foot-hold on the farm. The affects of the Sugar Beet Leaf Hopper, a disease known as Curley Top, were found quite pronounced pro-nounced in some sugar beet field's. The fields most badly affected were, those where Fne beets were less thrifty due to many causes such ms. lack of soil fertility, lack of irrigation, irriga-tion, lack of proper cultivation and management of weeds, and the presence pre-sence of Nematode. Grain fields of Utac wheat, Trebi barley, and the grain variety nursery tests were visited and found to be in excellent condition. O. S. Fisher of Washington, D. C., reported that this was the first time he had seen Vac wheat growing under field conditions. Some fields of Utah wheat were estimated esti-mated to yield from seventy to eighty bushels per acre and some fields of Trebi barley from seventy to one hundred hun-dred bushels per acre. Alfalfa fields throughout the district dis-trict visited arc in excellent condition condi-tion with a large second crop of hay now being harvested. |