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Show I MENACE TO THE ALFALFA I CROP. In our last issue we had occasion to call attention to a very serious danger threatening the alfalfa crop, I rcvailing at this time in the Salt Lake valley. There seems to be two very serious diseases or pests affecting affect-ing this crop. Prof. E. G. Titus, Entomologist at the Utah Experiment Experi-ment Station, is making an exhaustive exhaust-ive study of the ravages of these insects in-sects or pests. He informs us that the alfalfa weevil, so prevalent in the valley last year is unknown in the United States outside of the Sa't Lake valley, although it is very prc-va'cnt prc-va'cnt in Europe. It is somewhat of a mystery as to how this pest rould he introduced here for the first time, but it is probable that in the straw or packing of emigrants from Europe, the weevil made its cntranc However, that may be, the fact 'is r that it is here, and it is likely to I' prove very detrimental to the alfalfa ' interests in this county, unless heroic T remedies be adopted at once. So far as known, Prof. Titus informs us there is" no positive remedy. How ever, it is certain that constant disc- isig and harrowing of the fic!d will mitigate the evil, and there should h be no hesitanqy on the part of alfal- ; fa growers to adopt this suggestion. ! Alfalfa can safely be disced and ' l-ar,rowed after the removal of the first crop, the second crop, and the J' third crop'; itcan be disced and liar- r rowed in the fall and in the spring, the only precaution to be observed in ,t the matter, is to not disc the field 1 when it is so wet that the soil clings I to the disc. i o |