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Show ON TREE PLANTING By Robert S. Murdock County Agricultural Agent Those of you in Duchesne County Coun-ty who are planning to plant trees for windbreaks, woodlots, or wildlife wild-life cover this year should' Send or come in now for a 1956 price list and order blanks for low cost trees, ' available from the Utah State Agricultural. College. I have copies of these in my office. Requests for seedling prices should go either to me at my office of-fice in Roosevelt or to Grant Harris, Har-ris, USAC Extension forester, at Logan. Fourteen different species of trees are available this year. They are: Ponderosa pine, blue spruce, Eastern red cedar, Douglas fir, green ash, Siberian elm, black locust, lo-cust, thornless honey locust. Rus-sion Rus-sion olive, black walnut, golden willow, Iombardy poplar, common, lilac and squaw bush. Prices for this year vary from $1.50 to $4.00 per hundred seedlings, seed-lings, postpaid, depending on the species orderedj About 150 000 trees and' shrubs will be available to Utahns for distribution this spring. The trees are only available to farmers for the reasons men- I tioned above. Sales restrictions are described in the price list circular. cir-cular. The Logan tree nursery is operated oper-ated by the USAC School of Forest, For-est, Range and Wildlife Management Manage-ment in cooperation with the U, S. Forest Service under the Clarke-McNary Clarke-McNary Law. GLADIOLUS THRIPS Control gladiolus thrips on your stored bulbs now if you have not already done so, advises Bob Murdock, Mur-dock, county agent. Gladiolus thrips cause winter damage to gladiolus bulbs (corms) by getting down under the scales and feeding on the tissues. This reduces vitality of the plants which are to grow next season. If stored in a warm place, this also allows the thrips to become more abundant for attacking untreated plants' when they start to grow next spring. DDT dust, used at the rate of only a tablespoon full of 10, 25 of 50 DDT powder per 100 corms, and shaken up in a cardboard card-board box or large paper sack, should kill' all thrips present. From the standpoint of protecting the corms from disease as well as thrips, it is advisable to use an equal amount of Arasan with the DDT, thus giving double protection, protec-tion, ' Gladiolus corms should always be cleaned and treated for thrips control in fall or early winter. Careless growers actually set out their own thrips infestation for next summer's plant injury, when they plant untreated corms in the spring. Young Farmer's' Short Course At Logan Again this year Utah Bankers' Association and the Extension Service Ser-vice are sponsoring a joint educational educa-tional short course for young farmers farm-ers between the ages of 20 and 30. This short course will' be held at the USAC from Feb. 12-18, at which time these young men in attendance will be given professional profes-sional instruction and demonstrations demonstra-tions in many of the' problems that they are dealing with as farmers. farm-ers. They will have classes in livestock, live-stock, agronomy, forage crops, farm mechanics, marketing, poultry, poul-try, range, dairy, beef and sheep. This is a wonderful opportunity for two young men from Duchesne County to better inform themselves them-selves on today's farm problems. The Utah Bankers Association, represented by The Commercial Bank of Utah, Roosevelt and Duchesne Du-chesne offices, will pay the bus fare from Roosevelt and Duchesne to Logan and back for two men. They will have to pay their own expenses while at the colloge, which will be about $4.00 for lodging and approximately $15.00 for meals while there. Last year Milton Poulson from Duchesne attended this short course and he was very enthused in the many fine things he learned while there. For those who are interested in attending this year please contact Bob Murdock, your county agent, for additional h formation. |