| Show THAT REPORT ON BEET disease erastus peterson claims that an injustice has been done him in the published account some time since the tha reaper had bad occasion to mention the disease affecting the beets in the fields of this county and to publish some correspondence on the subject it had bad been alleged that a oung man va working with a surveying party had reported the matter to the agricultural college at logan loga n and that the matter had bad been greatly greata y exaggerated the boung man who abo reported the condition is erastus peterson feterson of richfield and he thinks an injustice ha has g been done him in the references to his hi s part in the matter ile he has been a student in the college and like all other students he has been taught to observe conditions surrounding ve station ta of all kinds and to investigate any abnormal conditions ard falling failing t to understand der stand them to report and ask for information regarding them he aas as simply pursuing instructions when he reported the beet conditions in this county it was a fact that the beets beet w were ere affected by a disease strange to mr peterson and he promptly reported the fact to the college and asked for information not with nith tie the inter tion of injuring the beet gro growers iNers or making himself officio officious Ls he did not understand the nature of the disease and asked the specialists at the college for the information mr air peterson feels that his action in ther the matter of taking it up with the college has had been misunderstood as he was trying to ascertain the nature of the trouble with the beets in order that the difficulty might be overcome over come and in reality he was doing the beet growers a service |
