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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 

 PESTICIDE DEALERS AND APPLICATORS FIELD DAYS/1: 30 P.M. /EACH DAY 



April 8, Office at Randolph County Extension Adviser, Charles E. Willman, Sparta. 



April 15, Office at Monroe County Extension Adviser, Arlin H. Obst, Waterloo. 



April 16, Office at Madison County Extension Adviser, Warren W. Bundy, Edwardsville. 



Insect and plant disease trouble -shooting will be the general topic, with special emphasis 

 on alfalfa weevil and corn borer. 



PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE 



Circulars: The "1969 Fungicide Guide for Commercial Vegetable Growers" (Circular 999) and 

 "Soil Disinfestation Methods and Materials" (Circular 893, Revised) have just been issued. 

 Others that you may find helpful are Circular 676, "Soybean Diseases in Illinois," and NC 

 Regional Extension Publication No. 21, "Corn Diseases in the Midwest." Single copies of 

 these publications may be obtained by contacting your county Extension office or by droppii 

 a postcard to the Agricultural Publications Office, 123 Mumford Hall, University of Illino: 

 Urbana -Champaign Campus, Urbana, Illinois 61801. 



READ THE INSECTICIDE LABEL AND FOLLOW ALL PRECAUTIONS 



This weekly report was prepared as follows: 



INSECTS: H.B. Petty, Steve Moore, Rosaoe Randell, Don Kuhlman, and Stephen Sturgeon, 

 University of Illinois College of Agriculture , Urbana-Champaign and Illinois Natural His- 

 tory Survey. 



PLANT DISEASES: M.C. Shurtleff and M.P. Britton, Department of Plant Pathology . 



WEEDS: Marshal MoGlamery and Ellery Knake, Department of Agronomy; Herb Hopen, Department 

 of Horticulture. 



AG COMMUNICATIONS : Del Dahl 



The information for this report was gathered by these people, staff members, county Exten- 

 sion advisers, and others, in cooperation with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, 

 Plant Pest Control Branch. 



