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Show CONTROL OF CLOVER LEAF WEEVIL PEST Light Pasturing Will Dispose of Many of Insects Clipping Also Assists. The Pennsylvania department of agriculture has received several inquiries in-quiries recently from farmers in the eastern counties about a worm working work-ing upon the clover. The specimens submitted with these letters show that the damage is being done by the larvae of the clover leaf weevil. As yet there is no successful method meth-od of controlling this pest, but the following fol-lowing methods will alienate the trouble trou-ble to some extent. Lightly pasturing the clover will dispose dis-pose of many of the insects, for they will either be eaten by the stock or be killed by tramping. Lightly clipping clip-ping the clover with the mowing machine ma-chine will also help, but it has the disadvantage dis-advantage that it is possible for the worms to live some time or until new growth has started, by feeding upon the clippings that have fallen to the ground. |