| Show LOCAL OUTPUT WILL BE RE 95 PER CENT diseases have also attacked pear s and apples and farmers will suffer much from saturdays standard the effect that the tomato blight is having on the crop Is brought out by tho statement made by the pioneer canning company diate that they anticipate the to decrease the crop to about 22 per cent the star canning company that the crop will be reduced to 15 per cent of what the total output should be and that in some places it will go as low as 10 per cent W J parker of the latter company states that his company will be well satisfied if the crop this year I 1 runs as high as 15 per cent it ls also stated that the blight which has affected the pear trees causing great damage to the pear crop has also attacked the apple trees around syracuse and that the flies are doing great damage to the sugar beets tho farmers 11 h affected districts are very much discourager on account of the different baights blights ts J A prominent authority oa tomato growing has the following to say concerning the tomato blight the blight covers all of the utah producing district and the cause of it is a small orm which attacks the plant at the root and its are presently manifested at tho tops of the plant in the shape of the blight the plant turns brown and eventually withers away before the tabs develops the percentage of loss is already CO per cent and is increasing I 1 should pay from my experience that the blight has been growing slightly elight ly every year for the last five years until the climax has at last been reached but it Is going to be stopped to stop the blight every producer should go into his without delay pull up the blighted plants roots and all haul them abway and burn them and keep this thag up all through the season then at the close of the season instead of merely allowing the plants to away they should all bo pulled out by the roots and burned and the aground plowed in the fall for othen crops as for wheat and barley toy tho following two years J dont man to say that growers should go out of the tomato raising business bec aase it is very profitable and creates labor accounts for every farmer but be trouble with the average farmer in growing tomatoes when his plaines plaints are struck with blight is that as iksoon as he notices it he becomes discouraged and falls to give his fields the attention needed when they be given more attention than evier the ground be kept absolutely frere from weeds and careful irrigation given that tho tomatoes may be well up it proper care had been exercised when the season opened cherto would not have been anywhere leafe the present loss by blight that tha blight is a contagion Is the fact that the tomato fields in the best condition today are those at virgin soil so that the farmer wily do well who plows out his lu cernes this fall or next spring and puts tahe ground in good shape for growling growl ng tomatoes As to the canneries 1 l notice there has been considerable talk about their closing this season and about foreign tomatoes being imported the facts are that there are enough tomatoes carried over the futures to be put out to over the shortage until the aroi ot 1906 so the canneries will run instead of running full lane they will run from one to three or four days per week as crop will justify |
