Show I ALFALFA WEEVIL The weevil is spreading In ina ina a way which makes it possible that sooner or later every section of the country will have to consider the I I problem of guarding against this I pest During tho the 12 years since the I weevil was introduced Into America it t has been confined to the limits of the he Great Basin of or the west but it has been found this year by the Bureau Bureau Bu- Bu reau eau of Entomology at Malta McCammon McCammon Mc- Mc Cammon Pocatello and Blackfoot Idaho all well within the Snake River drainage system and at Duchesne Utah in tn the Colorado River system whIch like HIm that of the tho Snake slopes to o the Pacific Within the Great Basin Ba Bain sin in the weevil has spread as far south as Richfield Into tho the alfalfa fields of ot central Utah The Tho insect in spread- spread log ng across the continental divide department department department de de- entomologists say Is to b bo be regarded merely as passing a conven- conven ent l landmark rather than as ns surmounting sur sur- surmounting mounting a barrier for exponent experience nc has not shown that It spreads faster long lont rivers than across mountain ranges A i J. J t i |