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Show B The Beet Blight. B .As a i csult of the sugar beet blight B the harvest will be cut down very H mntcrully in Utah this year. The B farmers who planted late on bot- B torn land are counting their efforts B an entire failure although six B weeks ago there was a promise B of an abundant yield, B A kind of fly attacks the beet H by pumping out the sap from the H under side of the leaf, thus pro-' B ducing" the blight which is playing B such havoc. It is no doubt too BBBBBBBBV BBBBJ late to do much this year in the B Vay of spraying or otherwise Hbb bVbTbk Vflfll i Bflflflflr BtsillfililR "r" "? MMMMaaBMIMMMMMMMiBBBHBMBBi fighting the insect, but attcnticn should be given to this question for future seas ins. It is not probable, however, that the farmers will be troubled again next year with this same insect. It seems to come and go according to the climate. Several Sev-eral years ago it made its appearance appear-ance and caused almost a yfailurc in many beet fields, but the year following there was auiabundant harvest, Spraying with kerosene emulsion emul-sion has bem recommended as a means of deslroying the insect. However, each fly will have to be thoroughly saturated with the emulsion before death occurs, and this will require special machinery for turning the leaves ol the beets and cost so much that the profit from the crop will be materially lessened. Government' experts recommend recom-mend early fall plowing as a means of preventing the presence of voini3 .nd insects the following year, for it leaves no vegetation on which the eggs may be laid. Late fall plowing is almost equally beneficial, for it turns the young worms under so .deeply that they seldom get to the surface, sur-face, or else it exposes them in such a way that they fall an easy prey to the watchful birds or in-clemenl.weather. in-clemenl.weather. Insects and worms destroy an enormous amount of vegetation each yar, which if saved would more thon feed the nation The government is doing much to prevent pre-vent and lessen these pests. The farmers should study governmental governmen-tal bulletins and conduct the cultivation cul-tivation of soil by such methods as will most certaily lead to safer rctums'from the farm. The margin of vegetation usually left around farms on ditch banks, furnish splendid opportunity for the deposition of insects' eggs and their protection during the winter. |