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Show New Sugar Beet Pest Nut RniiKcrous If It In Handled Properly. This week nocrnl runners hnc hud their young sugar beet plnnts greatly Injured byu llttlo grcon worm which In a tew Instances hns eaten tho leaves from a big part or tho patch. Whilo It Ib probnblo tho leaves will Blioot out again, yet it will retard their de- olopmcnt and slightly affect thc final yield. Joseph W. GoateB hiijh Unit Saturday Satur-day ho did not notice any Injury to his Hold, but on Tuesday u largo part pf n flve-acro Hold hnd been cucu off A closo Inspection rovcnlled the pies-enco pies-enco or'n llttlo green worm which hud done thc mischief nnd then hidden beneuth tho surfneo of tho soil. A curious fuel in thnt IiIh brother Ceorgo's Held, Immediately- udjoiuiiig, showed no perceptible injury, the reason rea-son probably being that tho uninjured Held was several days further nd-vaticcd, nd-vaticcd, A curious fact connected with them is that thoy will hatch out, deelop niitl bo gone In eight days. Dr. Titus, the Agricultural Collcgo bug man, lias been milking a study or tin? pcBt, hut has round no hotter remedy than thnt worked out by tho farmers who cultivate cul-tivate their bcots, using u brush in front of tho cultivator to brush the worms off for tlieo ultivutor to coui up or destroy. In some Instances tlih la followed by rolling cronswuyh, which mashes thorn. All are unuitcd In the Idea that the beets should unt be thinned till tho worm's olght-dn life has been ended, us by doing so there is but about one-tenth of the foliage to feed upon, |