Show Agriculture and arid Livestock Liv stock By W VI E I EXPERT URGES THAT FARMERS BA BATTLE WEEDS WEED Destroy Places Where In- In Insects Insects sects Breed to Save Sa Crops Farmers ot of the tho Intermountain country must carry rry on a con oon- constant constant stant campaign against weeds eeds not only because st tf tho the damage done dono by these gro In tho fields nd gardens but also b iun they form loran tho feeding grounds for Insect pests which fields Included In III these DestS are an ar the th beet bett lear leaf has been so to destructive In Int int Int t IP IA present season Dr E G 0 Titus director of or ag- ag nt reSeArch for tor the Utah Agricultural college collece has bu broad broad- broadt broad r itt t an appeal In iii which ho urges ures i campaign In which he says sas NATIVE OF or THE TIlE had h d a tV We have hav this season most unusual and severe ero all attack ek of the th leaf curly disease on ts ourbe-ts bets That Thill particular species of oli I Ii hopper at-hopper that has lias the thc temerity antI nd to feet on our beet Ie thus transmit tra the th disease does not f C t on leaves beet-leaves alone Hone Its original native nathe plants plant on the hills hillsand ant desert lands rarely oc occur cur In our cultivated fields But the tho thoI th I 1 it t f hopper 1 I b by no means con con- confined fined find to 0 these plants Man Many of our Introduced European weeds common pests of ot our farms arms and roads servo o jut as well for feed feed- In ing and br places There Thero Is no doubt that a por- por port por t por-t t on of our severe outbreak ak of leaf leaf disease this tear sear ar In InKom ome districts Is due du to tho enor enor- enormous enormous crop of ot weeds eeds last ears wet et season produced Upon these plants plant especially speciallY the t bred and developed de tens tensor or of thousands of o beet bed leof leat In some somi places the roadways ditch banks and antI fence rows row stood high and green last fall tall with this weed P fl nANK n IEST Along Alons the tho roadways and fence tence rows grew also one of o th the white hite eed rank and ond plentiful D a feeding ground for In- In Tho The mallows s or cheese cheese- plants cheese plants plant thlIn that In some sarno sections are gaining headway In our fields and breedIng are as feeding grounds for or these pests Ey By no means all allor alio 0 or the th drift In from the hills bills and desert lands land when se dry up In the on some Horn we w carried over with us plants we w should have havo canler de- de dc- dc de troed So w We have hav found no other means of the con con- con tin tra-tin the leaf curly-leaf than thon through tho the upon tho th leaves by an Infected p pr p r Knowing tills this would you ou not think that the th wise wis farmer r would cp IP pp down the weeds that allow such uch a dangerous Insect a place to fd t f d and breed Throughout the lanI for tor a of ot years 1018 has gone tone forth h h slogan Make lake of the thu farma farm a better place to live One On of the tho th ways way to m make meke ke farm Ufe better Is ls to keep down own the we e dr d A slovenly eldy eedy fence 0 on os t I li a constant temptation to lilt lx ig 11 l I the weeds eeds In th the tho field It- It It-ir It It Unless you ou kill more ore ofie of at ne ie weeds than have ha thus ihu far been killed this year ear next ears carI hoeing operation on every eVer cultivated cultivated crop will have ha to be dou dou- doubled dou- dou doubled doubled bled It Is not alone In beet fields that the weeds are preva 11 preY prevalent a- a lent but potato potatoes beans other crops stand full of weed weeds this falla falla fall a a disgrace race to the till farm and the community comm unity |