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Show mmm By Lloyd Smith Duchesne District Co. Agent ' GRAIN CLEANING ' With Wheat ripening in several j areas of Utah, it is time to start cleaning up , all wheat and small grain storage bins and granaries, says Lloyd Smith, County agricultural agricul-tural agent. Wheat and other small grains 1 soon become infested if they are 1 placed in graneries, or other storage stor-age space which has not been throughly cleaned up from last grain which was stored t there. Weevils, saw-toothed grain beetles, be-etles, meal worms, and several other types of moths and beetles infest and d'amoge wheat and similar sim-ilar products in storage. Dr. George F. Knowlton, Utah Statte Agricultural College Extension Ex-tension entomologist, says that all grainstorage bins should be thoroughly cleaned up a few weeks ahead of the harvest for the new grain storage. The floors, ceilings, and walls of all such storage places plac-es should be thoroughly sprayed with 5 pounds of 50 per cent wet-table wet-table DDT or chlordane in each 100 gallons of water. The spray should be applied liberally to all surfaces, inside the granaries and to the outer, lower walls and soil about each large storage place. If this is done well ahead of storing stor-ing the new grain, much benefit should be derived from this campaign cam-paign to destroy stored grain pests which normally infest and damage small grains wherever hey are stored without pest protection. It is no longer possible to market mar-ket wheat for flour if there is any serious infestation of insects, or if stored products have been contaminated con-taminated by rat, mice, or birds, Entomologist Knowlton emphasiz- |