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Show I " Hen Busy I - After the Insects WBk.-w-"' - rw Dr. Titus hast been called to So- Ier county by the farmers of1 that section who report that the lucern looper Is destroying wholo fields of bay. He left yesterday accompanied accompan-ied by Mr..Hagan, as other parts t( r the state are'sufferinKas well. Out j at Green river It ( reported that the j Joiper has climbed 'the trees and Is 5' " ealtaj the leave's and small fruit!; nox'Elder county has its attention dl-, dl-, vided between that pest and at least three" others. The -weevil In doing considerable damage, the army worm has 'destroyed acres and acres of beetscwk! the-apple leaf roller Is out aiter'lts-share of. attention. There Is no chance for the professors profes-sors in the agricultural npurses to think of vacation. "Summer Is their busiest time.- Dr. Peterson made three trips out of town to Salt Lake and Provo last week arranging for the placing offarm- demonstrator In Utah and Salt Lake county. Next week Me must go to Heaver and In the meantime, ho la busy arranging' work for the men already In the Held. Dr. Ball has been honored by being be-ing called to California to lecture to a meeting ot tho California State Horticultural Hor-ticultural Society meeting at the Davis Da-vis School ot Agriculture, a branch of tho UnlYenity of California. He Is fo speak on Insect pests. His election is an indirect acknowledgement by that state that Utah has men who know somo things they would like to know. Our own knowledge of Dr. Ball and the assistance ho has given the people ot the state through his work at the college In the deparjfiient of entymology tells us that they aro not mistaken. President Wldtsoe spent tho latter part ot last week and the first part of this In Salt Lake City. His trip was on work relative to the college, of which wo will know more when he returns. |