Show BEET CROP RUINED BY NEW INSECT I 1 pest lately discovered in california kills acres of growing plant professor E G titus entomologist at the utah agricultural college at logan expects to go to hamilton city in the upper sacramento valley california to study tho the habits of some new sugar beet pests that have made their appearance there the district Is a new one to th the 0 sugar beet I 1 industry n dus and apparently the pest had already had his habitat in that country and was wag just waiting for the sugar teet deet farmer to come along in about ten days last year he destroyed about acres of life plant arid and this year ho he is expected to make another start one of the means of fighting him is to use a machine that will spray about 30 rows at once with parts green or other poison this was introduced last year in that locality at the suggest suggestion lun of professor titus dr E D ball director of the experimental peri perl mental farm also in logan is now in southern california on a somo somewhat similar mission to that which will take dr titus away next week beeta in alint th at port portion loil of california have been thinned five weeks professor titus says that the reports he has heard from the beet raising districts of utah and southern idaho are to the effect that the beets although planted long enough are not up yet the dryness of the past few weeks was declared to be the cause and the rain of a few days ago is expected to have a beneficial effort effect 4 |