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Show BEEVES lAIVETftSjH lEMSIlf Simple Device, if ProvJBf ficient, Will Be AvwB'J to Country's Farmerijl NOT TO BE PATEmL Unsatisfactory Work of tiH sites Inspires GennVM Entomology 'Ls The small insect known an falfa weevil, which bus caused iH damage to alfalfa and other rH Utah and other states, and whojH redations brought about a quartt on Utah horticulaurial prodiicbH produce by othnr stales last ycajjH be entirely slampod out thin yeH machine invented by Georgo I. H United States ontomologiat, proT efficient as government officUB havo seen it bclfcvo it will machine is a simple one and (j! manufactured and used at smallS J but it is believed that it will kB alfalfa weevil on an entiro flaldfl ing usod once. sh Liko most fcdoral officers csafll' those who aro doing food worlciB fnrmcrs and wish to accomplish as little notoriety as pottiblH Reeves is modest regarding Bi vention. Although he tosled outH' ninchine of this type last year hM pe.rimcntal way and found' HiatifiHfiu probably bo a good one, oven fcbVi friends in tho Unitod StatcsP mcnt of agriculture did not hMfi his invention until yesterday wjB took bin plans to a 'local iron taLifi turinjr company and made arraniiB to tost out the machino as S, finished, on the Bonuion fanHnC Taylorsville. Simple and Cheap. Sf The instrument is a simple oKlt can bo manufactured for aooutHpU consists of a twenty-foot iron piHP twenty-one small holes bored'Bf top at certain intervals alontfBBh.-., tiro longth. It will bo placedVBDOl rear end of a wagon carryioj.K line engine, pump and tank cotM k arsenical poisoning. As tho wiV " drivon over tho flold tho pnaB'. forco the poison from the tankH pipo and it will spray from UK. holes over the field, covering raV twenty feet or more at a tlmaHi. fectivcly killing all tho wocvils.'HjlfJf While Mr. Kcovos will niB? fiositivoly that his mlwblne wlBL. he alfalfa weevil problem tKB ornment men have been worklH1; the iiitermoiintain country f6tHjQ! years, he admits that ho laHT' faith in the contrivance and'WU: that ono application to a fiH stamp out all tho weevil in it.. jK , that in the avurago allfa,H' Utah, infected with tho wooviBT' arc nbout 100,000 of tho peslj. jj Device lo Be Free. ijm The machino will not be piL-but. piL-but. if the results obtnincd by tHBXED pcrimonts which Mr. Reeves AndBima sistants will conduct prove to bBj.. factory tho department of agrjF will publish directions and olaniiB manufacture and use and iormBCc be advised to utilize it to riSja nolds of tho weevil. It will lfl2 dollurs and cents to all prodoMrB state, ns tho quarantines placejL,-Utah placejL,-Utah agrictlturnl products rcsulljPwU year in a heaw loss. 'm Heretofore the only method pfc' ing tho weevil was tno inirodMBjL foreign parnsitcs. It was claimw thoso parasites would in time 'm ' the woovil. So far, howoyer.tiBljag results havo been secured ".fBiiljj. introduction, and it would b EjJ of several years before tho TrewW''0 all killed, even if tho pnraaitH MRt efficient, and the new machine Mt&ty doubtodly be given a hearty M'jjrti. by the farmers of tho slate. |