Show FARMERS ARE WARNED TO WATCH FOR FOB WILT DISEASE doctor B L richards and D octor doctor F B D wann of the utah state experiment te tation spent wednesday and thursday with county agent leroy C funk in studying diseases of alfalfa la in duchesne county examinations were made in fields from duchesne to vernal co considerable alfalfa wilt was found in the fields just east of duchesne ducheane and at myton stands of alfalfa that have produced well for a considerable sid erable period are showing signs of rapid thinning out due to this disease alfalfa wilt is a bacterial disease that attacks the roots of alfalfa plants causing them to wilt stunt and die after the disease has gained a start one or two years is 13 all that it takes to make a more or less complete kill in a three year old field at vernal it was found that the alfalfa was nearly all gone this field had been seeded with a nurse crop and then cut two seasons for fop hay bay it is badly in need of breaking up and re seeding after four years to other crops alfalfa fields must remain out of alfalfa tor for tour four years to make rid of the disease then they may produce alfalfa tor for four years before they again need to be plowed under this tour four year rotation is the only method of control for alfalfa wilt we have at present in the fields examined at roo |