Show The County Agents Report j Duchesne County Farm News By Robert Murdock and Lloyd Smith SCHOLARSHIPS Duchesne County club members are eligible to compete for college scholarships In soil and water it was announced today by your Agricultural A total of sixteen college scholarships will be awarded to club members this year for best achievement in the field of soil and water conservation and the safety The together with expense paid trips to the National Club are offered as an incentive award to boys and girls through out the Donor of the soil and water conservation awards Is the Firestone Tire and Rubber the safety awards are provided by Gen eral Both concerns have supported work- for well over a reports the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club While the have their sights set on the awards are not the chief the National Committee pointed The objectives of to develop good citizenship and to contribute to the welfare of the to by and to achieve the best results in individual project Information regarding enrollment in the soil and conservation safety programs may be obtained from the County Extension or from your local club The program in Utah is' under the direction of the Cooperative Extension Service of Utah State University at CONTROLLING CUTWORMS may be controlled by treating the soil with say Lloyd Smith and Robert In the event that cutworms are a problem when cabbage flower garden plants are set dust the soil about the and along the rows with 10 percent Cutworms are numerous in soils broken up for or from weedy according to George F. extension at If your garden or fields of this it may pay to scatter cutworm or grasshopper bait over the land on a warm evening before the new plants Where cutworms are excessively a second baiting may be The baiting should be applied 4 or 5 days after the first Cutworms hide in the soil by coming out to feed on warm It is useless to bait for them during cold The bait may be prepared by mixing 25 pounds of dry bran with 1 pound of paris green Add only enough liquid to 20 to make a crumbly Paris green and similar poisons used in baits are poisonous to man and other and should be stored in safe places in clearly labelled warns case the pale western cutworm should develop an outbreak in any of our larger dry farm an early application of 4 or 5 ounces of actual ounces-of actual per sprayed or dusted and then harrowed into the soil will kill the i worms and stop crop Knowlton |