The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-12-21

ing drain tile a suitable outlet must
first be secured. Local conditions
must govern the depth of the drain
age. Five feet is generally a proper
depth for all purposes. Explained the
various kinds of drain. An open
drain Is expensive and not satisfac-
tory. Rock drains soon fill up. In
wood drains inch lumber should be
used. There is brick red tile made
in Ogden which crumbles. A sample
of tile made by John Somers was ex-
hibited. The gray tile Is the safest.
Explained how tile is laid which IL
begun at the lower end.
Thursday morning at IL o'clock,
the Farmers Institute with a larger
attendance than at any previous SEES
sion, opened with the introduction
of Prof. e. d. Ball, director of the
Agricultural College Experiment Sta
ton, lovingly referred to as "the bug
man."
With numerous charts, the profess
sor illustrated how the codling moth
does its great damage to fruit, the a.
mount in dollars and cents running
away up into the millions in the
United States in a single year. Con-
ditions in this valley two years ago
were seventy Ave per cent worse than
they are today and the orchardists
were highly complimented for the in
terest they had taken in means to
stop the inroads Of this pest, by band
ing and spraying, etc. The proper
spray, Paris Green, with its manner
Of mixing and tn time and method
of it's application were gone into at
length. Spraying as so many DO, by
allowing the mixture to fall in spray
on the leaves and fruit is quite in
Elective, and 1t was because of this un
business-like way of handling the mat
ter that so many people lost faith in
spraying. Spraying done by means
of force pump using the proper noz-
zle which will send small stream of
the liquid into the calyx or blossom
end of the fruit will certainly do it's
work well. He cited certain or
chard in Cache valley. OF five acres,
that was badly infested with the pest
ferrous moth, so much so that the ow-
ner was about to pull up the trees
and plant other crops Out OF 1900
apples on the trees, So per cent were
wormy. The following year the or.
chard was sprayed twice and 90 per
cent Of the yield were sound apples.
The next year the same treatment
was applied and that year nearly 100
percent were sound. Other insects
mentioned by the professor were the
woody aphis, black aphis, red spider
and the method of eradicating then
was thoroughly explained. He also
spoke of the worms and bugs that in.
fest the beet fields and gave formulas
for their determination. A novel In
vention for catching grasshopper.
was illustrated. This formula wa!
given as an aid in getting rid Of hop
ers: 1lb white arsenic, 10 suga,
and 15fbs bran. Mix with enough
water to moisten and scatter in tn,
path of the migrating insects ant
you will be astonished at the results
Hon. Mosiah Evans, in neat talk
compared the profits of sugar bee
raising with that Of other common
crops One farmer thought the prof
: of sugar manufacturing would be
very instructive subject.
President John A. Widtsoe very in
terestingly demonstrated the theory o
: economic use of water. Most farm
Z ers pay for the water and when 1t Il
their turn Insist on using 1t, wherea
. II they knew the amount of water re
quired by different crops they woul,
c get better results. The plant root
Y let's extend into the soil n distance o
from to feet and when these root
let's are overcharged or soaked con
stantly they get yellow and in tim
die. The speaker advocated an ag
ricultural education for our boys s
that the texture and chemical compo
sition of the soil might be as wei
known as the plant.
Prof. Lewis A. Merrell discusse
dry farming in Its various phases 4
the evening session,
There were in all 26S people VIII
attended the institute, so the frs
farmers school is recorded as a dc
cided success.
, We are only sorry that We didn
have a reporter in the women's dc
partment, but "forewarned is foreaI
med" and next time We have occasio
J to report farmers school. the wive
and daughters will be given frs
place.
y (From Box Elder News.)