Show salina wheat farmer stops ravages of green stink rug bug during the last few fea I 1 icara ears the green stink bug has hern been in num bets bers in the in dr wheat fields about fifteen miles west of salina during the season of 1024 1324 some come of the nn farmers in that section lost their entire crops crop one of these farmers fanner 1 mr ernest herbert of salina malted the experiment Epen ment station at nephi last july and there secured from superintendent bracken the proper name of the bug and learned more of its hab its and characteristics it was nas then that mr herbert made up his mind that if the hues bugs ever ener showed up again on his premises es that he would stop t their heir ravages on jull juli 3 1923 dr I 1 M hawley entomologist of the utah experiment station and S R Bo boswell guell counte count ap ag ent of seier count made a trip to the grain farms owned by ernest her brt and arthur denni dendron on of salina after a thorough examination of the fields and the surrounding rounding ur ter ferriton riton it was nas decided that there was tas no practical spra by which the bugs bugg could cool be controlled but mr herb herbrt herbert rt dealt with mith the si tuition ile he constructed a bug catcher after the order of the bal loon grasshopper catcher which was given to us a number of I 1 ears ago by dr E D ball of the utah experiment Epen ment station mr air herbert has p perfected his catcher and ii aed ed the g same ame en effect effectively iel in his big wheat heat field the cont contrivance nance is drawn drann by two horses hones with a rope tied to the saddle through the field at the rate of a slow alov gallop in this anan wa the bugs bugg are collected and at the top and bottom of each field taken from the bag and buried mr herbert reports that lie he is able to catch about one bushel buhel per hour with this machine it is estimated that gnp on ol 01 two more trip th rought the wheat heat fields will vall completed comple teh clean up this pest other farmers farine iq in utah who are troubled with this pst can desilv emulate mr herberts Hei berts ingenious practice |