The Green Fields of Kennewick

District Horticultural Inspector F. E. DeSellem, of Yakima County, is here this week in company with Inspector Luke Powell to study methods to combat the strawberry root weevil. Mr. DeSellem says the Benton County commissioners are deserving of credit for funding weevil-control experiments, which he predicts will save thousands of dollars for Northwest strawberry growers. As a former resident of this valley, Mr. DeSellem is finding much to interest him as he visits the orchards. He finds evidence on every hand of better farming methods, which he attributes to the work of County Agriculturalist Lee M. Lampson and Horticulturist Powell. 'Only a casual look at the orchards is enough to convince me that the farmers are building up their soil,' said Mr. DeSellem. 'The foliage is a deep, rich green and forms a violent contrast to the sickly trees that were in evidence five or six years ago. Five years ago the country was new. Farming was all more or less guesswork. You are gradually working out these problems and in so doing you have outdistanced many of the older sections of the state.'