The Bismarck Tribune

INSECTS CAUSE MUCH DAMAGE IN MANITOBA

Fargo, N. D., Sept. 9.—Insect damage to crops in Manitoba is about the same as in North Dakota, some sections being damaged from 20 to 25 percent and other sections being hurt but little, reports A. V. Mitchener, professor of entomology at the Manitoba Agricultural college.

Mr. Mitchener, on his return from an international committee meeting on crop pests, held in Bozeman, visited the North Dakota Agricultural college to confer with Dr. R. L. Webster, state entomologist.

The Hessian fly has done very little damage in Manitoba, Mr. Mitchener says, and the saw fly has not been a serious menace to crops. "The plant lice have been our chief crop pest this year," the Canadian entomologist declared.

"We in Canada notice that there is considerable exchange along the border line between the farmers of North Dakota and Manitoba. I mean especially an exchange of ideas about farming and farming methods. The two sections are so nearly alike in many ways that farmers find the same problems confronting them and are interested in how their neighbors across the line are faring.

"We believe from the letters received that more North Dakota farmers are listening to the radio lectures sent out from the Manitoba station than are farmers in some parts of our own province. These radio lectures are on various agricultural phases and have proven quite popular among the farmers on both sides of the line."