| Show e v THE SHE WORRIES OF OFA OFA OFA A FARMER To be a farmer is to enjoy much happiness That Is the generally accepted thought among those thos who live in towns and cities But If of df o the vicissitudes ofra of ra farmer Carmer as x recorded dally In the press are to be taken at their taco face value then the farmer Carmer has the least desirable desirable lot Jot of o the struggling passes Halt Half tl the rho e time the n weather ather eather Is is 1 In a conspiracy to destroy him end when frosts or droughts are pot menacing him bim then he Is In tn danger dancer oE or being made a bankrupt by y the buns bugs which search him out Down In the cotton belt they have bave the the boll boil weevil II which has reduced average production one half balf toed and threatens to wipe out entire plantations Oa 0 0 cr et In Illinois a wee wee- weevil weevil vil vii has bat entered the edge ede of the corni corn i area rea and Is doing much damage T Twenty enty years ago co Weber cou county ty had Its lt Bartlett pear p r orchards de- de destroyed de by blight Later a wee II Invaded the alfalfa al falfa Holds fields and played havoc until the enemy ot of the weevil o Its prey pre No Now the farmer is h l informed he hhas has bas the sleeping Bleeping ness in his s tomato lines sines Ines and he li le warned arned to wake 1 ake up or he will bo be ruined mined lle farmer to avoid bugs hue Is kept as busy dodging as n Is a city mallIn manIn man mall manila ila In geWn getlin out of o the way o ot of the th autos Uto A on all the n wilt notifies the farmers that the sleepIng sickness hat baa a appeared Io 10 an alarming extent In 1323 1923 and andIs andIs andis Is most moat roo t destructive of o all attacking tomatoes The bulletin Says The he future futuro and the th destructive work ork of oC the tho th will depend dep nd ona on a number of ot factors facton 1 upon Its Ita present distribution 2 upon the th ItaI I of infection control of oC tie the sources 3 3 uroil ulon the favorable conditions I of ot the climate for Its lit spread and Ity and 1 4 t upon the cooper cooper- co cooperation cooperation oper- oper atlon of oC tomato tom growers Vers o and can canning cannine i ning companies s i lit the th I h rouble The dangers are are real and very effort effort must he be b made mud to pre pre- pr H J At the tho A present cut Cut further spread y VA y lime Ime ent a II definite co operative groe- groe be- be bet be between ment has been Men entered Int Into tween t w en the Utah Agricultural exper caper experiment experiment v Invent station and the tho Utah Can Canner neu nere association to carry on exper exper- experimental experimental mental research for foi the r e of thIs problem The fhe work will be bej under the tho Immediate direction of pr pr D L Richards plant of oC the Utan Eta sta- tta control will willbe j lion Ion Tho The problem of ot be practiced as well wll as research in breeding resistant r si tant u- u ta titles CasS Cases ot of disease dl ii JI In seed teed beds or In fields during the U ei- ei oJ ed o tt ra 4 immo- immo imme PHONOGRAPHS 0 arlous ies 3 c S 'S et i J ie 2 1 ports who had bad studied tomato cut cui tore ture In la the th Ogden district told the that failure regularly rotate crops would open op n the way for or disease To what hat extent the disregard of the warning is II responsible sible for or the rapid spread of at o the th present disease is not Dot disclosed but that crop rotation Is la essential to t SUCCESS In tomato raisIng raisins must mut be recognized recognised Anyone Any one crop grown on the same sum soli soil without a ft change ch ni makes for cond conditions s favorable to t disease 1 |
