Show soil conservation aids in insect control work improved wildlife rood food and cover resulting from the soil cou conservation program in utah has a distinct agricultural benefit in terms of insect control as well as land improvement according to E A borell regional biologist for the soil conservation service borell explains that even birds that live largely on seeds as adults feed large numbers of insects to their young nestlings Nest lings often eat more than their own weight in insects each day studies made in various parts of the country indicate that the normal crop losses from insects are much larger than farmers ordinarily suspect the te conservation biologist said although few data are available in western states entomologists in illinois have found that average loss in in corn due to insect injury is 85 per cent 91 per cent for wheat 51 per cent for oats 75 per cent for timothy and per cent for bluegrass blu grass with improved wild life food and cover which often increases the song and insect eat ing bird population several fold the inevitable result is a greater consumption of insects although some birds do damage to certain crops the benefits in insect control usually outweigh the damage they do fortunately tuna tely a duel agricultural benefit may be obtain obtained n ed from windbreaks stream bank plantings de silting plots and other plantings pl antines made to control erosion if those pian plantings tIngs are made witia with bird food and cover in mind he says such blan pl antines tings also benefit quail and pheasants who do their share of insect eating ing also some farmers believe that pheasants repay any damage they do to crops through their consumption of grasshoppers to provide food cover and nesting sites for birds boren borell recommends c the planting of russian olive buffalo berry osage orange wild rose and trees and shrubs which have proved effective both for erosion control and wildlife habitat improvement tagged fish worth money about 85 of the cash prize trout tagged and planted in utah waters on the opening day of fishing have been caught by utah anglers to date according to representatives of the K S L utah state fish and game commission gold fish derby the numbers stamped on the tags are good for cash prizes ranging from one to fifty dollars the fifty dollar fish is still at large although one orile of the twenty five dollar fish was caught in the upper weber river most of the fish reported caught have been taken in the waters of the lakes and streams in iii the vicinity of fish lake br or from the weber ar or provo rivers the prize winning anglers are special guests on n the program lets letsgo go fishing ing on the air each tuesday over iver K X S L at 7 15 pm |