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Show IMMEDIATE DUSTING OF TOMATO MOTHS URGED LOGAN, August 9 Tomato fruit worm moths are now becoming abundant in tomato fields of Northern North-ern Utah, according to Dr. G. F. l.nOWllOn, A'jouiauc Diiwuwiu6wuui the Utah Experiment Station. A generation of the most destructive species of tomato fruit-worm has new matured on early corn, and is moving to tomato fields. A second species, native to this area, has been depositing eggs on tomato plants over the past tyo weeks, and some injury to tomatoes has already occurred, oc-curred, especially in fields where the first application of calcium arsenate ar-senate dust has not yet been supplied. sup-plied. Some of the tomato fields in most districts have received the first dusting, dust-ing, it is recommended that fields not yet dusted be dusted immediately. imme-diately. Fields should receive a second dust application two weeks after the first dusting occurs. This is to protect growing fruit, and to kill worms hatching from the later brood moths. |