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Show FARM NOTES I BY HYRUM STEFFEN t Beaver County Agent Utah 4-H club members began pheasant raising duties this week after initial shipments of the birds from the Utah Fish and Game department de-partment June 13. tJther shipments ship-ments are scheduled for June 20 and June 27. Hatched in the Springville hatchery, the chicks are only a few days old when the 4-H club boys and girls receive them. The club members tend and brood the birds until they are about eight weeks old, according to David Sharp jr., assistant state 4-H club leader. Last year 4-H'ers sold about 2500 fuillgrow pheasants back to the Utah department for release into the fields, and the number of birds tended this year will be about the same, Mr. Sharp reports. re-ports. As part of the project, 4-H club members planted over 5,000 Russian Rus-sian olive trees this spring in order to provide more and better feed and additional shelter for the birds. Planted along tke ditch-banks or around the edges of fields, the trees are very hardy, and the berries of the tree is a good source of feed for the birds, Mr. Sharp states. Club members are paid 75c for each bird they brood from chick-stage chick-stage until time for release, and in past years club members have been very successful in raising the birds, Mr. Sharp concluded. To eliminate the corn worm in tomato crops this year, get rid of the infested fruit and then use either a dust or a bait, according to Dr. Arvil A. Stark, extension horticulturist. Getting rid of the infested fruit will keep worms from crawling to other plants and will prevent egg laying for future generations, wliile dusting or baiting when the iittle fruits begin to form and continue through the season will kill the bugs, Extensionist Stark reports. V |