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Show tag season, Dr. Knowlton urged. With high crop and livestock quotas set for Utah, and existing high farm prices, insect control is especially important. Through exercising ex-ercising best control practices, better bet-ter quality and greater yield are obtained, he stated. Dr. Knowlton concluded that detailed information about insect and pest control may be obtained from the county agricultural agent, distrct agricultural inspector and through the Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural college specialists engaged in pest control and research. Pest Control Important During 1942 Pest control will play a very important role in the national defense de-fense program and will be an urgent need as well as a patriotic duty during 1942, Dr. G. F. Knowlton, Knowl-ton, associate entomologist at the college experiment station, declared declar-ed Tuesday. Many farmers will be plowing unused patches of farm land' Dr. Knowlton explained, which in the past have served largely to breed insec; and rodent pests to infest adjacent crops. Early plowing plow-ing of such land will destroy overwintering over-wintering grasshopper eggs and deeply bury many hibernating pests of other kinds, thus reducing reduc-ing need of insect destruction later, lat-er, the entomologist said. All spray and dusting equipment equip-ment should be overhauled now and put into shape for the "all-out" "all-out" control campaign this com- |