Show E offitt WEBER COUNTY ay FULLY tomato vines arc destroyed and the crop may be a total failure from thursdays standard bishop cook of syracuse davis county was in ogden this morning and reported that about three fourths of the tomato crop in the northwest portion of dails county and the southwest part of weber county will be a complete loss on account of blight which means a loss of about to that portion of the state and a further loss of at least to weber county for the past few years a blight has been noticed in certain portions of the state which had the effect of turning the vines yellow after which the stalks would droop and die the blight however had never attained any serious proportions until the present season it is hard to estimate the loss as it not only affects the growers but also the canning factories and tho labor which will run the amount tar up into the thousands some of the farmers have taken the matter to the experiment station in an effort to discover the cause of the evil which is believed to affect the roots of the tomato plant |