Show 00 FIGHTING FOR FORTHE FORTHE FORTHE THE BEET FARMER FARMEI Encouraging progress has been made by the experts erts of ot the de- de de department of o agriculture In the fight against the pests which hue hate be been n doing gr great at damage to sugar beets the last two or three sea sea- seaSons seasons sons Secretary Jardine in his an- an annual an annual nual report declares marked progress ress teas has been the In Investigation Investigation ves- ves of o curly top He sas sa's says A A mild form of the disease observed at Calif In 1921 was WIS studied and found to be caused by virus that had previously 1 1 passed through certaIn wild hosts subject to the disease before beCore being transmitted to beets by hy the insect lusett lenella This remarkable cry ery of attenuation of or the virus hUs Is believed to be the first ever ner recorded of such a non In a disease ot or platte plaits pla ts i I AddItional data on on the control I of the sugar beet beel by ro- ro rotation ro rotation tation of ot crops 8 was as obtained at ro Salt Lake City Utah and this S method is now unhesitatingly rec- rec as the only practicable ree-l ree one under present conditions In Utah Idaho Colorado Wyoming InI I Montana fontana and California I An investigation of the best for storage of oc o commer commer- commercial commercial commercial I cial beets was ns blought toa con con- conclusion I elusion at Salt Lake City CIl It l lad previously brought out that enormous losse losses of sugar occur In Inthe Inthe Inthe the piles plies at beet bet dumps and In factory bins on account of or the activities of oC the beet heels which go on although atIl ata at Il a diminished rate The princIpal lon re resulting from roni I I this Investigation ID Is to shado the he surface of or plies piles with a ft moisture moisture- moisture holding holding Inexpensive covering whIch should be sprayed with wa wit water ter during dry weather It was as proved that this lowers fers the tern tem temperature and aud cuts down ventilation ventilation tion which reduces respIration anti amI tho the resulting lots loss of o sugar For months the tho department t of agriculture has had a large force of experts in the beet fields of Utah and Idaho endeavoring to help the farmers and the state state- state ment made by Secretary JardIne Indicates that a great gleat measure of success has been met with 00 00 |