Show FLY HURTS ALFALFA inest ines t ruin seeds which it enters dean of college tella tells of Preen preventive tive measures 1 tor 7 or tho the nasr seven or eight yeara years kansas growers of alfalfa or clover seed have suffered considerable losbog from the damage of the clover chal els fly y saya says george A dean professor of entomology ento in the kansas state agricultural college at the fl fine alaid of alfalfa present time there seems to be nu specific cr cure but the ex termination of 0 this peat would be aided if a few simple directions were consistently followed the clover chalets fly or at it Is better known the alfalfa chal chaich cli is 1 a small four winged bisect about one 0 n tenth of an inch long the adult files flies deposit their eggs in thi th i soft partly grown seeds hero llero thu the eggs bartly and the larvae feed upon the inner portion of the seeds at the timo time when the seeds b become come ripe most of the larvae are tire emerging as adults some of the larvae pass win ar within althin the seed pod and emerge the following spring much bluch can be accomplished agal against rAst this pest if it some of the following methods of prevention are carried out hum burn the fence rows in early spring or fall cultivate the alalea fields in tho the winter so as to destroy all hibernating larvae destroy screenings from threshed seed well cleaned seed that been fumigated by carbon cut the alfalfa and clover along tho banks and fences because the earliest seed pods are found to develop on isolated and vigorous plants and tho the first generation of files flies often matures before the main crop Is ripe |