Show A L FA LEA li LEAF WEEVIL ul the pest that threatens the lucern Cr ophas made its appearance in south end of davis co prof E G titus entomologist na fit the experiment station stati at lo 10 gan an was in town saturday looking fiig over tho the lucern fields for tho the alfalfa leaf weevil tho the pest that iFil doing such an enormous dam in salt lake county until the professors sors visit here it was believed the post was via confined to salt lake county bat he found some in the fields south Woods of gross cross I 1 the farmers who had bad to turn their teams buu on op on tho the mountain and got get them again in V tace q morning before they could commence work woric before lucern was introduced into this county will probably bo be the only men who oho would f fully ally realize the loss of oi this most important crop croo prof titus is very anxious that every precaution possible should bo be taken to prevent the spread s 1 re ad of this plague it is is as bad as the cotton bowl weevil in abe south and similar in size and alj appearance barance ea rance about the only thing that can bo be done to kill tho the pest and to keep it tram from mpr spreading F e abing ading is to thoroughly disc and cross disc the land and then go over it with u le as soon soda as the crop is off ok where it Is possible poss ib lo 10 the land should bo irrigated irrigate dafter after it has bas boon disked d seed and an bevelled levelled level led aiji i i ain I 1 1 i iii ii i rl ajae professor recommends the burning of till all dry grass and rubbish around ditch banks and af after ter the weevil has gone in hibernation |