Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-04-03 | Page 4 | The Troubles of a Farmer

THE TROUBLES OF A FARMER Agriculture has ha its full Ull share of It If the weather Is 1 fa prices are a worry and end when hen weather and prices are good Is certain to tome some ome kind Of ot a pest peat appear roe For years the tile cotton colton grow growers e ra Irate ha been oen fighting the boll weevil are aro ever bee be- beul be beset set net with lIb Insects Ih The wheat gro grow grog grower er r hoe has Hessian fly IT the pot potato tO raiser has hu a number ot of o and no now the corn grower IS arned that a borer Is li ng mO est from the Great Oreal Lakes alter after having baving left a path of ot doe de I tI d In Massachusetts an anNew New York The corn borer borr bas has come out of o southern Europe as dd the alfalfa al alfalfa falta falfa weevil cevil when brought to Utah This Insect was waa Imported In 1917 In broom corn delivered In Massachusetts and Is said to tobe tobe be coming westward at miles milesa la a year It Is A ii worm orm over an Inch 1 ng eats Into the stalk breaking If ft the stem Its Ida ravages In have ba been 16 IE percent per percent percent cent of the crop I Last years year's corn crop In the United States totalled three bit bil billion lion Uon bushels valued at over two twit billion dollars A If fifteen teen per cent loss over the United States would equal Corn Is the principal crop of the prairie states stales Its consumption consumption tion is Js divided as folio follows s Only 66 per cent Is le ground Into flour lour cattle consume 15 percent per percent percent cent horses borses 20 per cent hogs bogs 40 per cent stock on farm 6 5 5 6 per percent percent cent poultry 4 per cent A few years ago the tha United States State a produced 95 per cent of the corn ot of the tile world orld No Now other countries are extending their corn cornfields cornfields cornfields fields and last year ear the farmers o of this country harvested lees leBB than Iban 75 per cent of ot the worlds world's output the total for all alt countries being bushels Arg Argentina does a bigger bust busi bustness business ness nus in the export trade trade In corn than does docs this c country