Show INSECTS DESTROYS OUTLOOK FOR GOOD SEED CROP uintah basin farmers warned 0 D damage a mage being done to alfalfa seed crop by tarnish plant bug A small green insect known as the tarnish plant bu bug is slowly but surely destroying the outlook tor for a bumper alfalfa s seed eed crop in the uintah basin this year already damage done by the insect in the uintah basin alone amounts amount to most of the fields adjacent to roosevelt are infested infest eC with the tarnish bug and the superb bug another species ot of red and black color which is doing considerable damage to the seed crop the destructive tarnish bug grows from young to adult stage on the alfalfa and develops wings in the adult stage it sucks the life from the alfalfa buds which turn white and fail to blossom the prevalence of the tarnish plant bug is an exceedingly serious threat to the alfalfa seed crop in the basin this year cut first crop many farmers who planned to let their alfalfa go to seed because of the prospects of unusually good seed prices and relatively low hay prices have been forced to cut the crop chop A great many of them do not know why the alfalfa fails to bloom suggested remedy cecil wilkinson representative of the peppard seed company who has been in the basin the past ten day making a sur seed condition and O methods of control of tile green 91 bugs bugs that are causing so much damage suggests this remedy after alfalfa fields are cut they should be harrowed anil and dragged leaving them bare and dry for a week or ten days this will kill cill starve and drive away most of the tarnish bugs mr ii wilkinson reported that fields field s not infested with the insect were in fine shape the alfalfa in blossom and burrs setting in |